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23rd May 2023

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TIL the Peter Pan thing where flying requires fairy dust and happy thoughts was originally just happy thoughts, but J.M. Barrie added the requirement of an unreal catalyst in later editions to get children to stop trying to replicate flight themselves by believing hard and jumping from high places

  1. fireleaptfromhousetohouse said: In a possibly related fact, Barrie donated the copyright on Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street children’s hospital
  2. kontextmaschine posted this
    TIL the Peter Pan thing where flying requires fairy dust and happy thoughts was originally just happy thoughts, but J.M....