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

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LkBMd TIL Mel Blanc, The voice of Bugs Bunny was put in a coma after a serious car accident. After unsuccessful attempts to bring him out the doctor asked “Bugs, can you hear me?”. Mel responded in the voice of Bug Bunny “What’s up doc?”. The doctors used this to lead him out of coma.
0lkR TIL that there designs for a rocket even larger than the Saturn V that could boost 1.2 million pounds into orbit. It was so large it had to be launched partially submerged and was call the Sea Dragon.
N7mZe TIL that Germany didn't invent concentration camps, America did.
QyQL TIL that in 1944, General Patton was placed in charge of a fake invasion force that consisted entirely of actors, and the Germans fell for it completely
QYJe TIL that despite increases in computer power, each Shrek movie has taken about twice as many hours to render as the one before it. Dreamworks calls this “Shrek’s Law”.