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TIL while in college during the Prohibition era, Dr. Seuss was caught drinking gin with friends in his dorm room. He was forced to write under a pen-name to dodge his ban from writing for the school’s humor magazine. Thus, Theodore Geisel chose his now-legendary pseudonym.

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