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

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.

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.)

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.