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TIL Mario wears a hat because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.

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XEj9D TIL about Jocko Graves, a boy who touched the heart of George Washington and who died helping the American Revolution because he was too young to fight.
Y7a1d TIL the White House has military social aides who's jobs include everything from escorting dignitaries to providing a dance companion or small talk to lonely guests.
DYZP TIL JetBlue has an E190 plane named “My other ride is a jetBlue A320” and an A320 plane named “My Other Ride Is A JetBlue E190.”
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
wLJP1 TIL of the coffin / casket company named Lindner that has a “sexy coffin calendar”