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TIL that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented in 1939 as an advertising copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, who was inspired by his own downtrodden life, as well as The Ugly Duckling story, to create the adventure of a misfit reindeer with a glowing red nose

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