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TIL In 2018 a guy asked Insomniac Games to put a marriage proposal in Marvel's Spider-Man in an attempt to save his marriage. They did it for him, putting the message on a movie theater sign, but later it was discovered that she broke up with him and she didn't even like video games.

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