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July 30, 1935

On July 30, 1935, the first penguin books were published. Being that penguins were first discovered by Europeans around 1488, the fact that it took until 1935 to write books about them is astonishing. What? Excuse me? Penguin is the name of the book publisher? That’s stupid. Why even mention it then? Because Penguin ushered … Continue reading

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