Today I learned that, while A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, named the character after his son's teddy bear, Pooh's design was actually based on another teddy bear named Growler, who was owned by the son of Milne's illustrator, E. H. Shepard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh
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