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TIL that the founder of Marvel Comics very nearly died in the infamous "Hindenburg" disaster. While on their honeymoon in Europe, he and his wife bought tickets for the zeppelin's ill-fated trip to New York, but they decided to book a plane flight because they couldn't get two seats together.

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