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TIL Marvel once published a comic about “Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Ham” in 1983. He was a “Spider-Pig” named Peter-Porker

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WkRgY TIL that there’s a phrase for thinking of the perfect response a week after the argument - l’esprit d’escalier.
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