Stuffed Animals facts
While investigating facts about Stuffed Animals, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Trader Joe's hides a stuffed animal in a majority of their stores and if your child finds it they get a prize
A Detroit man is incredibly good at winning carnival games. In fact, he has won nearly 250,000 large stuffed animals in his lifetime... and donated them all to various charities.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 36 of the best facts about Stuffed Animals I managed to collect.
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There is a stuffed animal hospital that cleans and repairs beloved stuffed animals and dolls. The toys are called patients, shipped in an ambulance box, and returned wearing a hospital bracelet with their name.
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Thomas Jefferson tried for years to send a gigantic stuffed moose to a French count to counter claims that the North American climate made all animals (including people) weak and feeble
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The eagle featured on U.S. currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the U.S. Mint. He died in 1836 but, like many animals whose admirers just can't let go, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.
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Clyde Frog was a real TV show character in the 1970s, and not just one of Eric Cartman's stuffed animals.
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United Feature Syndicate responded positively to a comic strip featuring a side character with a stuffed animal. They asked the creator to develop a strip around these characters but ultimately rejected it for lacking in marketing potential. The strip was Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson.
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In 2011 after a game called "Smuggle Truck", about smuggling Mexicans across the border, was rejected by Apple the dev's changed the name to "Snuggle Truck" and made all the characters stuffed animals to cut controversial content.
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A Japanese comedian stayed on reality show, completely isolated from the world for 335 days, with basically nothing(even clothes),survived weeks on dog food and talked only to a stuffed animal,for a big prize of about 10'000$.
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about the Beanie Babies bubble in the 90es, where a $5 stuffed animal would be worth up to $1,500 until the bubble bursted in 1999 and they became worthless
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During an unsuccessful hunt in 1902, US President Theodore Roosevelt was presented with a chained bear to shoot as a consolation prize. Roosevelt famously refused to shoot the defenceless animal, inspiring toy-makers to make a stuffed animal, calling it the Teddy Bear.
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There's a website that will make a stuffed animal clone of your pet
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Astronauts traditionally bring a stuffed animal to space with them, so they can tell when it becomes weightless.
There's a travel agency in Tokyo that will take your stuffed animal on vacation(without you)! - source
Her parents gave her a stuffed chimpanzee they named Jubilee when she was a child and it started a life-long love of animals.
In the Original Winnie the Pooh Books, Rabbit and Owl are actually Real and not Stuffed Animals - source
At the 2016 Olympics, wrestling coaches were given dolls of the event's cat-like mascot. To challenge calls, coaches had to toss them into the ring. One coach said, "The fate of one of my athletes [...] hangs in the balance of a referee's error. And I have a stuffed animal in my hands."
The stuffed animals that belonged to Christopher Robin, and which inspired the Winnie the Pooh books, are on display in New York.
Sausages developed as a way to use meat efficiently by stuffing meat scraps into animal intestines.
Although most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh are toys or stuffed animals, Rabbit and Owl are live animals.
There's a german passport company that issues passports to stuffed animals
Poena Cullei, an ancient Roman execution method. The condemned was stuffed into a sack with an assortment of animals and then thrown into a river.
