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

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XvYk TIL that a man’s home was being foreclosed and the bank wouldn’t let him sell it. He responded by spending 2 weeks tearing down the $350K home he built.
606Y TIL Hattori Hanzo, the swordmaker in Kill Bill, is named after a real samurai
7paP TIL in 2006 a man was able to buy $150 of groceries with a fake $200 bill. The front side had a picture of George Bush and the reverse a picture of the white house with various signs on the lawn, one sign said “WE LIKE BROCCOLI”.
69BOQ TIL Frank Sinatra had a bottle of jack daniels placed beside him in his coffin.
X0DO8 TIL about an engineer who made a motorcycle out of his wrecked car to escape the desert