There's really no limit to the things you could learn just by surfing the internet.

But sometimes it can be hard to separate masses of useless info from some real gems.

That's where I come in.

Here are some more random facts that are totally worth knowing.

You're listening.

You're listening to You're listening.

You're listening.

You're listening to be amazed.

There's some things she'd be better off not knowing, and this is definitely one of them.

Remember the big blue furry cookie monster, whose famous phrases including

Me want cookie, and me eat cookie. He's never actually eat. Remember the big blue furry cookie monster, whose famous phrases including, Me Want Cookie? And...

Me Eat Cookie.

He's never actually eaten a cookie in his life.

Put the pitchforks down for now, and allow me to explain.

The character was originally designed by Jim Henson in 1966 for a series of unaired snack commercials

before he landed a spot on the first season of Sesame Street

in 1969. The thing is, the cookie monster is, spoiler alert, a pretty hefty puppet. In fact,

it's safe to assume that the cost of regularly cleaning or replacing him would be pretty high.

Cookies, however, are notoriously messy snacks. You see where I'm going with this, right?

Instead of risking getting the puppet greasy or worse covered in chocolate,

production swapped the cookies out for a cheaper, mess-free alternative.

Rice cakes, which were painted to look like chocolate chip cookies.

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