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credit to u/hoopsnek for their informative imgur post

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[-] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Unbeknownst to most, Barbie actually started out life in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by artist Reinhard Beuthien for the Hamburg-based tabloid, Bild-Zeitung.

I just pulled the date from this description under one of the images on imgur, if it's inaccurate that's why.

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