Nerdy Trivia: November 10, 2025

A good vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting will demolish most of those "exciting" flavors that taste like scented candles. Vanilla only got labeled as boring because it became the default that everything else gets compared to, even though vanilla beans cost more per pound than silver.

"Sesame Street" launched the careers of a whole army of muppets who would teach generations of children that education could be entertaining and monsters could be cuddly instead of scary. From the first episode, viewers met characters who are still loved today, but not every iconic resident of 123 Sesame Street was there from the beginning. Which muppet was NOT in the first season of "Sesame Street"?

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56 years ago TODAY, a big yellow bird, a grouch in a trash can, and a bunch of Muppets made learning way cooler when “Sesame Street” premiered on NET in 1969! Created by the Children’s Television Workshop with Jim Henson’s Muppets, it mixed letters, numbers, music and real city blocks so kids actually learned while watching, with humans like Gordon, Susan, Bob and Maria holding it together. It became the gold standard for educational TV, spun off movies and specials, and it’s still teaching kids their ABCs five decades later. Do you know what did Jim Henson almost did instead of Sesame Street?

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