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Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what he was doing as he’d never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to learn how. In the first chapter, it said “Study Godfather I”.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of such Nintendo games as Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda, has a hobby of guessing the measurements of objects, then checking to see if he was correct. He enjoys the hobby so much he carries a tape measure with him everywhere.

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  1. The rapper Logic played Mario Kart against different rappers every night on stage for one of his tours and won all 35 games

  2. Nintendo will not allow the creator of Super Mario to bike to work because they consider his safety to be too important

  3. Mario Andretti once refused to drive a racing car when he discovered that the Church of Scientology was one of its sponsors.

  4. Nintendo's character Mario is named after Mario Segale, who was the company's landlord in 1981. All Segale has publicly said about this is "I'm still waiting for my royalty checks".

  5. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, is not allowed to bike to work because his safety is too important to Nintendo

  6. Kanye West first started making beats when trying to make a Mario style game about a giant penis

  7. In 2004, a Mario game had a transgender playable character with a subplot about being accepted by her family. This was censored in the American version.

  8. Nintendo encouraged Wreck it Ralph producers to use Mario in the film but the producers thought Mario's fame would take away from Ralph and the story.

  9. The original Super Mario Bros game had 256 "Hidden" levels that were only accessible by swapping the game cartridge with a copy of "Tennis" while the game was running.

  10. A 10-year-old saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious while driving. As they veered into oncoming traffic, the boy grabbed the wheel and guided the car to a halt in a mud filled ditch. Hailed as a hero, he credited his skills to playing Mario Kart.

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A 10-year-old saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious while driving. As they veered into oncoming traffic, the boy grabbed the wheel and guided the car to a halt in a mud filled ditch. Hailed as a hero, he credited his skills to playing Mario Kart.

Scientists in Berlin asked adults to play Super Mario 64 over a period of 2 months for 30 minutes a day. The group showed increases of grey matter, demonstrating "the direct causal link between video gaming and a volumetric brain increase." - source

Nintendo is so protective of its property that it bought the rights of a super Mario brothers porn parody so that it would not be distributed. - source

During filming of "Super Mario Bros." Bob Haskins (Mario) and John Leguizamo (Luigi) were so unhappy working on what they knew to be a bad movie that they would often get drunk to go through with shooting scenes.

A study conducted at the University of Montreal showed that young people who played the 1996 game Super Mario 64 for just two months had increased spatial and episodic memory, which improves brain capacity and helping to forestall dementia. - source

An A.I. bot was designed to learn how to win at games like Super Mario & Tetris. Eventually the A.I. learned the best way to not lose would be to pause the game forever.

The "Wa" in Wario and Waluigi isn't an upturned M, it's actually a portmanteu of Mario and Luigi's name and the Japanese adjective warui which means "bad", literally translating to "bad Mario" or "bad Luigi".

The Koopas in Super Mario are based on Japanese myth creatures who hid in toilets to fondle women's butts while they went to the bathroom

In the Original Nintendo Games that Mario's Hat was created due to the graphical limitations of arcade hardware since hair couldn't be represented well.

When Dennis Hopper's 7-year-old son asked him why he played King Koopa in "Super Mario Brothers," Dennis told him "So you can have shoes." The son replied, "I don't need shoes."

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There were two Mario porn parodies made in 1993 called "Super Hornio Brothers" and "Super Hornio Brothers II." To protect its image, Nintendo bought the rights to both movies and made sure that they were never released.

Play testers for the original Super Mario Brothers found the Koopa Troopa enemies too difficult. Nintendo added in simpler enemies at the very end of production, just to teach players how to beat enemies. They were Goombas, and became the most recognizable enemy in the Mario franchise.

Yoshi's full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, and that Mario’s genus is "homo nintendonus"

Due to the limitations of arcade hardware in 1981, Mario was clothed in red overalls and blue shirt to contrast his arms, body, and background. The cap was added to avoid drawing his hairstyle, forehead, and eyebrows. The large nose and mustache avoided the need to draw a mouth and expressions

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

The cast of Super Mario Brothers was constantly drunk while filming just to get through their scenes.

Wayne Gretzky lost 2 of his 62 records since retiring. He also gained back his record for highest average points per game from Mario Lemieux. Lemieux, who came out of retirement from 2000-2005, lowered his average thus giving the record BACK to Gretzky.

Kingdom Hearts began as a conversation between two Square Enix producers who joked that the only way they can design a game that can surpass Super Mario in recognition is to use Disney characters. This conversation was overheard by none other than Tetsuya Nomura.

Mario Lemieux on his first ever shift in NHL, stole the puck from Hall of Fame defenceman Ray Bourque and scored a goal with his first NHL shot.

Link, from The Legend Of Zelda, was originally intended to have a button nose similar to Mario, but the wife of game designer Yoshiaki Koizumi convinced him to change it to a sharper one because she thought Nintendo didn't have enough handsome characters.

Boos, ghosts from the Mario video game series, are based on co-designer Takashi Tezuka's wife who is usually quiet but exploded one day, maddened by all the time he spent at work. Similarly, a Boo “shrinks when Mario looks at it, but when Mario turns away, it grow[s] large and menacing.”

In Super Mario Bros., the Hammer Bros. eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough

Italian footballer Mario Balotelli was asked by a reporter why he refused to celebrate his goals. He responded: "Because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?"

MARIO wears a Hat because Programmers at that time found it difficult to create hair movement when the character jumped.

Charles Martinet, the voice of Nintendo's Mario, crashed an audition uninvited and was told to make up a voice for an Italian plumber from Brooklyn. He talked until the audition tape ran out and was immediately given the job.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, was shocked by the violence in the game GoldenEye 007 and suggested the game end with Bond visiting his enemies in the hospital and shaking their hands

The Mushroom Houses in Super Mario Bros. 3 already know what item it will randomly give you at the start, therefore picking one box has no advantage over picking the others.

A baby was born with only a brain stem and almost no brain (2% of normal human brain). By age three, his brain had grown to almost 80% he size of a normal human brain. He now enjoys playing Mario Kart.

Nintendo produced a cereal in 1988 called the Nintendo Cereal System which had two vertical bags, each containing a different cereal. One side was the "Super Mario Bros. Action Series" and the other was the "Zelda Adventure Series", consisting of fruity or berry flavored characters and items.

Nintendo bought the rights to two Mario porn parodies in order to halt their distribution.

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