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TIL the Super Mario Bros. theme song has lyrics

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epdkJ TIL of 'Dr' John R. Brinkley - a radio pioneer and fake physician. He would later make part of his fortune implanting goat testicles into humans to increase their virility.
1a7lP TIL after South Park premiered in 1997, the number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million, to a staggering 50 million by 1998.
OGlWa TIL Mark Hamill once pitched to George Lucas that Boba Fett should be revealed as Luke Skywalker’s mother, envisioning her as a double-agent working secretly for the Rebels, and as the only way to top Vader being Luke’s father. Lucas obviously didn’t go for it.
1aBj8 TIL that Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler mocking film, "The Great Dictator", in 1940 using his own money because none of the Hollywood studios were comfortable irking the Germans as they had financial relations with them. The film is said to be one of the greatest works of Charlie Chaplin.
4wMX TIL WWE Wrestler Glenn Jacobs a.k.a Kane gives economic classes to students in his spare time.