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TIL in 1985 Cannon Films bought filming right for Spider Man, believing it was wolf man like character. In their treatment, Peter Parker transforms into eight armed hairy monster.

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D1arp TIL that first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he went to space. He survived the mission but his wife would receive the letter 7 years later after Gagarin died in a plane crash during routine training.
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