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TIL that the pinky promise originally meant is the person doesn’t keep their promise their pinky finger would be chopped off.

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dDyb9 TIL Wolverine almost a cameo in Spider-Man 1, Hugh Jackman travelled to New York to film a scene but the idea was scrapped when the production team realized they had lost Wolverine's suit
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