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TIL Nintendo's Mario is Named After a Real Life Person, Mario Segale

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4XGp6 TIL The Three Stooges were Jewish, often used Yiddish in place of gibberish, and were the first in Hollywood to satirize Hitler in 1940 - nine months before Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator
4kv1w TIL Tucker Carlson hosted a game show called "Do You Trust Me?" back in 2007. Six episodes of the show were filmed but none aired.
WGlX TIL the last princess of Korea died in 1989, after 37 years spent in Japan, returning to Korea in tears, and resided in Changdeok Palace until her death, the last royal resident to reside there. Her parents would’ve been the last Emperor and Empress of Korea had it not been annexed to Japan in 1910.
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