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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Dumb
Useless
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Information
Wormwood
Hobbes
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