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TIL bubble wrap was originally engineered to be a "fashionable" wallpaper

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awJkL TIL Spider-Man could have been a fly. Stan Lee said "I saw a fly crawling on a wall. And I said, 'Boy, it would be great if I could get a superhero who could stick to walls like an insect.'" He considered "Insect Man, Fly Man, Stick-to-Wall Man, Mosquito Man... none of them sounded good enough."
D1Xap TIL Microsoft Solitaire was added to Windows to familiarize new users with the mouse.
E1naW TIL, that Denmark saved 99% of Danish Jews by sending them to Sweden once they realized the Germans were going to begin rounding Danish Jews up, and send them to camps.
7yDL TIL Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, says that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film.
ne9Go TIL an 18-inch pizza has more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas