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TIL that Bill Griffith's comics character, Zippy the Pinhead, was partially inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was born with an unusual tapering cranium, which led some people to believe he was a microcephalic. When Johnson worked for P.T. Barnum, he performed as Zip the Pinhead.

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