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Super Mario Bros. was released on September 13, 1985, since then, the game has sold over 40 million copies.   The entire Mario series has sold over 160 million copies.

Super Mario Bros.

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The Story of Robert Ripley

November 12, 2008

Robert LeRoy Ripley (12/26/1893 – 5/27/1949) was the founder of Ripley’s Believe it or Not newspaper cartoon which featured odd and unusual facts, oddities and talents.

On December 19, 1918 he was working in New York with the New York Globe newspaper drawing cartoons when he drew his first Believe it or Not! Cartoon, It featured 9 athletic believe it or not drawings. Readers loved it so much it became a weekly, then daily feature in the newspaper. In 1929 Robert Ripley put out a book of his strange findings, followed by several more in the 1930’s.
After his death in 1949 others have taken over and the books are still very popular and still being published. Over two million books have been sold in the past two years. As well there are now museums all over the world including North America, Asia and Europe. Robert Ripley claimed to have visited 198 countries looking for more oddities. The feature Believe it or Not was originally called Champs or Chumps but was changed since he editor wasn’t a fan of the title.
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The Worlds Oldest Joke

Did you know that the worlds oldest known joke dates back to 1900BC? It is a saying of the Sumerian people who lived in what is now Iraq. “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Submitted By Fran in the Forums

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The Wilhelm Scream

“Originally recorded for the 1951 western Distant Drums, the silly scream became a favorite of sound designers in the mid-”70s (four-time Oscar winner Ben Burtt is the guy who brought The Scream back to life), and has since been heard in dozens of movies in which grown men fall to the ground in terror and/or [...]

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List of Homer Simpson’s Jobs

Excluding these non-canon jobs, Homer has had 109 jobs as of now. [view the list]

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Jumping The Shark

From wikipedia.org “Jumping the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak, or has introduced plot twists that are illogical in terms of everything that has preceded them.”  [read more]

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