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TIL Super Mario wears a hat because his creator found it too difficult to draw his hair and eyebrows.

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v1W5L TIL that the first casualty of the Vietnam War for the United States was Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr., who was not killed in battle but was murdered by another serviceman
4XkMJ TIL that water towers provide water pressure based on their height and don’t just hold water.
K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”
LQlOr TIL that Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi starred in an episode of X-Files together in 1995.
v1gl4 TIL Jesse Brown, the first USN black aviator, was killed after his F4U Corsair was hit by Chinese fire and crashed near Chosin Reservoir on 12/4/1950. His wingman, Thomas Hudner, purposely crashed his plane to try & save him and in doing so, was the only USN pilot in the Korean War to receive a MOH.