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TIL the main reason as of why the modernPpaper Mario series seem to avoid their classic rpg design from the first games is because Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't want the developers of the series to "stagnate" on the classic rpg mechanics.

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4XARw TIL that a shark found in Greenland is the oldest living vertebrate on our planet, estimated to be around 512 years old.
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