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TIL that Nintendo's Mario takes his name from Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo's American Headquarters in Seattle. After coming into the warehouse to berate Minoru Arakawa for late rent, the game developers changed the name of their main character from "Jumpman" to Mario.

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