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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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VMeKp TIL that during WW2, Japan launched Project Fugo, which sent hot air balloons to the U.S rigged with explosives. At the time, they were the longest ranged attacks in the history of warfare. However, they were largely ineffective due to weather, and caused only 6 deaths.
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ANkR4 TIL When Enrico Fermi first split an atom in 1934, it was completely by accident. He was actually trying to create new elements by hitting uranium with neutrons. It was only in 1938 that other scientists figured out what Fermi did.