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Sesame Street premiered on American public television on 10 November 1969. Created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, it was designed to prepare children, especially from low-income homes, for school by using the techniques of commercial television: short sketches, catchy songs, animation and puppets. It featured Jim Henson's Muppets and was the first children's show built around educational goals and a curriculum. It got good reviews, some controversy and large audiences, and it has reached generations in dozens of countries.

Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production next year after barely three years, freeing its Texas factory for the Cybercab robotaxi. Before launch in 2023, Musk told investors Tesla would sell 250,000 a year; last year it sold just over 20,000. It is not alone: Ford discontinued the electric F-150 Lightning as a money-loser, Rivian's pickup sales have slid every year since 2023, and the Hummer EV has been called the worst-selling pickup of 2026. Automakers had bet that big, aggressive electric trucks would win over traditional pickup buyers, but sticker prices thousands higher than gas trucks put many off.

The Feejee Mermaid was a hoax that fooled 19th-century America. In 1842 showman P.T. Barnum displayed in New York a withered creature billed as a mermaid caught near the Fiji Islands, with a monkey-like upper half joined to a fish tail. It was actually a type of folk art made in Japan and the East Indies, where such fish-and-monkey hybrids were sold as charms and linked to the ningyo, a mermaid-like yokai that could curse or grant long life. A sailor bought one, and Boston museum owner Moses Kimball sold the idea to Barnum, who planted newspaper letters from a fake expert before exhibiting it. Some viewers took it as a missing link between sea and land life, and it fuelled debate about evolution.