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TIL The Mad Magazine cover after 9/11 originally featured runners in the New York marathon with Alfred E Neuman jumping over a covered dead body. The magazine’s printer called and asked the editors if they were sure this was the cover they wanted, and the cover was changed to Alfred’s face

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