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TIL there is a Marvel Comics character named Spider-Bitch

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9AJM TIL There are isolated communities in Eastern Canada that speak Gaelic
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5Y90P TIL that J. M. Barrie based the character of Peter Pan on his brother David. The reason Peter always stays the same age is because David drowned the day before his fourteenth birthday, and his family always remembered him as the boy who never grew up.
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