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TIL When the Addams Family were introduced in 1938 as a single panel comic strip, they had no names. It wouldn’t be until nearly 30 years later that they received names, for the 1964 TV show. Even their last name wasn’t their’s at first. It was just the creator’s, Charles Addams.

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