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TIL When Stan Lee first introduced Spider-Man the publisher turned him down. Stan Lee didn't give up and snuck Spider-Man in to the last issue of the shuttered series Amazing Fantasy which went on to become a success.

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Mmr8 TIL Sergeant Tommy Prince of the 1st Special Service Brigade (aka “The Devil’s Brigade”) would sneak into SS Officers’ quarters and kill every third officer while they slept in their beds, and leave the others alive so they could find them dead in the morning.
xDR1 TIL that spider silk is stronger than bone and half as strong as steel
BgJax TIL that Albanian paganism possesses some of the longest lasting rituals in the world. With links back to Proto-Indo European Religion
D88r TIL of the Daughter from California Syndrome where relatives of terminal patients who haven’t seen them in a long time demand aggressive procedures to prolong their life.
xKy1 TIL the first Japanese person in space was a heavy smoking, whiskey-drinking, middle-aged news anchorman.