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B is for birthday. As in Cookie Monster’s birthday! The blue-haired, googlie-eyed Muppet is one of Sesame Street’s most beloved characters, but how much do you really know about the cookie fiend that celebrates a birthday today?

Grab a box of cookies and check out five fun facts about Cookie Monster:

1. Cookie’s real name is Sid.
2. Cookie Monster’s dad appeared in a “Monsterpiece Theater” sketch promoting energy conservation, water conservation and environmentalism.
3. The original incarnation of Cookie Monster was created by Jim Henson for a General Foods commercial.
4. An early version of Cookie Monster appeared in a Frito-Lay potato chips ad and was named Arnold, the Munching Monster.
5. On a 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, Cookie Monster tried to eat Stephen Colbert’s Peabody Award.

All these fun facts from Answers.com.

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