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TIL Mario is only "about 24-25 years old", according to his creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

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x6ZRo TIL of the 1982 Uiryeong massacre, when 56 people were killed by South Korean policeman Woo Bum-kon. Woo was enraged after his girlfriend woke him by swatting a fly on his chest.
kBpg TIL during WWII, Pacific island natives thought the misplaced cargo parachute-drops delivered to them were from their dead ancestors. So, after the war, they imitated soldiers they had seen, reenacting marches with wooden rifles and built airplanes of straw, in hopes that the airdrops would return.
pkJA TIL in 1986 a truck carrying sulfuric acid crashed in Spain - the driver and his wife were found dead, but there was no sign of their son, apart from his shoes. Interpol has called it the ‘strangest missing person case in Europe’
4OwX TIL Samuel L. Jackson got rid of his stutter by developing an affinity for the word “motherfucker”
9YVd6 TIL "Blocks found with dates from all seasons in the Egyptian calendar suggest the pyramids were built year-round and not just when the Nile was in flood."