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  • Man Cracks Open an Agate, Discovers The Cookie Monster Inside

    01/28/2021 10:34:23 AM PST · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | STEPHANIE PAPPAS | 27 JANUARY 202
    You never know what you're going to get when you crack open a geode-like rock called an agate, but a new specimen is even more surprising than usual: It looks just like Cookie Monster. The agate, found in Soledade, a precious stone hotspot in southern Brazil, is a dead ringer for the blue, googly-eyed Sesame Street Muppet. After its owner, California mineral collector Mike Bowers, posted about the agate on Facebook, it went viral, with write-ups in newspapers from Australia to Israel to the United States. "I didn't realize that Cookie Monster was so well known and part of the...