Talk about real life facts that you learned through the Mario series.

[Shell]

The Mario series, for the most part is not intended as an educational supplement, but sometimes you happen to learn some trivia anyways. For example, from the Mario Kart series, I learned that cc, standing for cubic centimeters, is the measurement of the volume of the piston cylinders in a car engine.

I also learned about the Happi from it's appearance in Super Mario Odyssey, which is a kind of coat the might be worn at Japanese festivals. I thought it would be interesting to see what other people learned from the franchise, so feel free to share below.

 

[Salmancer]

I learned that "sluice" is a real word from Vamoose the Lava Sluice!. My memory says it's something dam-like. (This is tempered by the fact its hard to tell what Vamoose the Lava Sluice! is depicting, which means I never got to do the most important part of learning words: using them in a sentence.)

Spoiler: Actual sluice definition

Merriam-Webster has the following relevant definitions for "sluice" (link)

1. 1. an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow
   2. a body of water pent up behind a floodgate
2. a dock gate : floodgate
3. 1. a stream flowing through a floodgate
   2. a channel to drain or carry off surplus water

 

[Skuchi037]

So 150 cubic centimeters in the pistons of each kart. Which means the engines can pump more energy from fuel, so the karts can go faster.

Man, Nintendo is smart.

 

[Volleyball Iguana]

It helped me spell the words "piranha" and "odyssey" correctly.

 

[Rykitu]

Not a video game, but Ask Izzy taught me that you have to travel 24,901 miles to go around the world.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Not a video game, but Ask Izzy taught me that you have to travel 24,901 miles to go around the world.

Honestly depends on where you do it, because you'll need to travel more miles around the equator than say higher latitudes.

 

[Volleyball Iguana]

Seeing Koopas without their shells made me curious if the same thing applied to turtles. I looked it up and it turns out you can't. Shells are attached to the turtle bodies, so don't do this in real life or you'll kill the turtle, at the very least severely injure it.