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TIL "Spider-Woman" was originally intended as a one-off character by Marvel for the sake of simply establishing trademark, but the first issue sold unexpectedly well. Writer/editor Marv Wolfman was asked to take the character to an ongoing series

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J5WV TIL: The average single male changes his sheets just four times a year.
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
0l01 TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first cousin (Tanoai Reed) has nearly the same body type as The Rock, and has been his stunt double for all of his movies the past 13 years.
78OGr TIL the Sheena Easton hit song 9 to 5 was released in the United States under the alternate title of Morning Train. This is because three months prior Dolly Parton had a hit song in the USA that was also called 9 to 5
1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.