John Green Drops Some Knowledge About Newspaper Comic Strips in His Latest Mental Floss Video

So many facts in so little time.

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Do you want to very quickly learn a bunch of stuff about newspaper comic strips? Then let John Green give you 27 facts about them in about eight minutes. You’ll learn about the first comic strip, what Jim Davis thought about Garfield Without Garfield, and more, so watch and learn.

(via Mental Floss)

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