211. The largest omelette ever was made in Canada and weighed 2.95 tons. All the chickens in the surrounding area cried and still, on the anniversary of its making, wear tiny black wingbands.
212. The word for omelette in Persian is "kookoo."
213. Leonardo da Vinci used to buy birds in the market just for the fun of releasing them.
214. Hunter S. Thomson's ashes were shot out of a cannon atop a 153 foot tower, along with red, white, blue and green fireworks and music by Bob Dylan and Norman Greenbaum.
215. One of the motorcycle groups whose members started the Hells Angels was called The Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington.
216. The Sesame Street song, "Bein' Green," has been recorded by a diverse group of performers, including Frank Sinatra in 1970, Diana Ross (1974), Ray Charles (1975), and Tony Bennett (1998).
217. Big Bird sang "Bein' Green" at Jim Henson's funeral.
218. Oscar the Grouch was originally orange (season one) and turned green later. In 2009, he was interviewed by Anderson Cooper and intimated that he still was orange, but had turned green because he didn't bathe -- he was covered in moss.
219. He is also Canadian -- his father was from New Brunswick and his mother from Nova Scotia.
220. Big Bird's teddy bear is named Radar after the M*A*S*H character.
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