1.  The first appearance of Cookie Monster was in an IBM training film in 1967.

2.  Elephants grow six different sets of teeth in their lives.  Once the sixth ones fall out, they die of starvation.

3.  Diet Pepsi isn’t vegan . . . but Pepsi won’t say what animal ingredient it uses that keeps it from being vegan because that’s, quote, “commercially sensitive information.”

4.  The Beatles are the only artists that ever had five songs in the top five spots on the Billboard chart simultaneously.

On April 4, 1964, the top five were:  “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Twist and Shout”, “She Loves You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and “Please Please Me”.

Here is today’s bonus fact:

5.  America had laws against animal abuse before there were laws against child abuse.

(Fandom / Eleaid / Cosmopolitan / Billboard / New York Times)