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TIL: Between 1903 to 1905, a cartoonist named Gustave Verbeek created a comic strip called The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, in which half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, but when turned upside-down, it showed the scenes of the second half.

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