Strange But True: Kermit puppet
By Lucie Winborne
NASA's first interplanetary CubeSats, a pair of briefcase-size spacecraft called Mars Cube One, or MarCO, which flew by Mars in 2018, were named for the Pixar characters Wall-E and EVE.
Figure skate blades were originally made of animal bones.
Dolphin calves are typically born tail first, so they don't drown during the birthing process.
Christian Louboutin manufactured a limited edition shoe for brides. They had baby-blue soles to give the bride "something blue," but the company ceased production after copyright issues.
It takes Pluto 248.09 years to make one orbit around the sun.
And speaking of shoes ... England's Queen Elizabeth II had hers broken in for her by her personal assistant and senior dresser. The idea was that she couldn't afford for her shoes to be uncomfortable or give her blisters while on official business.
Jim Henson made his first Kermit puppet using his mother's old coat and two halves of a ping pong ball.
Bacon was used to make explosives during World War II.
Peter Pan creator James Barrie used to act as if he were his dead brother, David, to cheer his mother by dressing in his brother's clothes and whistling like his sibling used to do. On one such occasion, his mother thought for a moment that David had actually returned from the dead.
Automobile tires were originally white.
The Caesar salad was actually invented in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1927. Hotel Caesar owner Caesar Cardini wanted to make dinner for friends but didn't have a lot of available options, so he tossed lettuce into a bowl with a dressing made from whatever he could find at the moment.
Thought for the Day: "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin
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