Hey! Welcome to yet another project that I'll probably just blow off for the next few months after a few updates! XD

Most of these are written in standard explanation style, but if I'm feeling really creative, I might just write a short one-shot every once in awhile! I hope you all enjoy it! I'll start with the standard characters, but if there's anyone or anything really obscure you'd like me to talk about, feel free to let me know!

Some of these are fun headcanons, while others might be actual facts! So let's-a go!

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Now there's so much I could talk about here. I mean, it's Mario! He's got hundreds of little facts and trivia bits that even I don't know, and I could just pick one out at random and have everyone be completely fine with that. A plethora of random facts, information, and trivia that could satisfy a hundred chapters simply focusing on Mario alone.

But I decided to go deeper. More obscure. I decided to delve into the recesses of the Mario unknown and bring out something truly mind blowing. Something that I wouldn't even know had I not gotten a little gift with a little number on the side. And so here we go: something you probably didn't know about our favourite red plumber, Mario!

Mario is over seven feet tall.

Now I know that has to sound unbelievable. What? SEVEN FEET?

7.167, rounded up, to be exact.

Now how could I possibly know this? It's ridiculous! It's preposterous! It's... Pretty sensible compared to some Pokemon sizes, actually.

Now I didn't get this via the games. I didn't find this out because of the manga, the show, the movie (pfft) or even the most obscure issue of Nintendo Power. I found this because of, wait for it...

The toy line.

There are lots of super awesome Mario toys out there, perfect for your everyday collection. But one of these particular toys is from the Mario Kart DS series. Little cars that you can put on the ground, slide back, and watch them race off. Now on the front of the box there was a little picture that caught my eye. It said, scale 1:43. So for every 1 inch, that's 43 of them in full size.

Now it took a little bit of creativity on my part. The cart only has Mario's head and a bit of his body, so I had to measure his head, from the tip of his hat to the bottom of his chin, estimating a bit since his mouth was open, and then I had to compare it to a larger sized Mario figure I had, which is 20 inches tall. It took a bit of mathing, but I managed to figure it out, and the number above is what I came up with. And it has Nintendo's official seal of approval to boot.

That is HUGE. I mean, Goombas are half Mario's size, and at this scale they'd probably reach my elbows. And not be able to fit through the door. I always figured Mario was only three feet at best. Here, you'd be running for cover.

But then you look at the world they live in. Everything fits! Sure in real life it'd be nightmare fuel to see a mushroom twice the size of your head blinking back at you, but in Mario's universe, it's all compatible since it's all built around that scale.

(But I don't even WANT to know Bowser's height. Now THAT is scary.)

And, this is based off of Mario Kart DS toys. It's entirely plausible that our moustachioed hero has... Shrunk down to size a little bit.

But according to toy canon, Mario is really tall. You don't notice it when you're playing, but it makes sense now why all the cars are so puny looking!

Hope you enjoyed this Mario factoid! Tune in next time for something you didn't know about Luigi! Thanks for reading!