Sesame seed is considered to be the oldest oilseed crop known to man, domesticated well over 5000 years ago.

Sesame has one of the highest oil contents of any seed.

Sesame seed is sometimes sold with its seed coat removed ( decorticated ).

Sesame seed is considered to be the oldest oilseed crop known to humanity.

* Sesame seed butter ( usually called tahini )

* Sesame seed milk

He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.

The success of Sesame Street spawned The Muppet Show, which featured Muppets created by Henson.

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

The format of Sesame Street consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and educational techniques which have evolved to reflect the changes in American culture and the audience's viewing habits.

In order to attract the best composers and lyricists, the CTW allowed songwriters like Sesame Streets first musical director Joe Raposo to retain the rights to the songs they wrote, which earned them lucrative profits and helped the show sustain public interest.

When Sesame Street premiered in 1969, it aired on only 67. 6 % of American televisions, but it earned a 3. 3 Nielsen rating, which totaled 1. 9 million households.

Historian Robert Morrow, in his book Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television, which chronicled the show's influence on children's television and on the television industry as a whole, reported that many critics of commercial television saw Sesame Street as a " straightforward illustration for reform ".

In May 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its " highly integrated cast of children " which " the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for ".

The result was Sesame Street, a landmark program which has been reproduced in countries around the world.

Ford joined funding, as did the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was being established just as Sesame Street was.

In the 1970s, on Sesame Street, Villechaize performed Oscar the Grouch as a pair of legs peeping out from a trash can, for scenes which required the Grouch to be mobile.

Unlike its counterpart Sesame Street, which licensed its Muppet characters for merchandising, The Electric Company did not have a brand or character that could help generate profit.

The earlier shows did not resurface until February 2, 1999, when the Noggin network, which was partly owned by Sesame Workshop at the time, rebroadcast the show as a result of its co-ownership of the network.

Noggin ran 65 select episodes until 2003, when they were pulled from the program lineup because Sesame Workshop sold its half of the network to Viacom, which already owned the other half.

Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur, as well as on The West Wing ( episode " Noël ", in which he performed the prelude to the Bach Cello Suite No. 1 at a Christmas dinner at the White House ), Sesame Street and Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone ( which had to be completely rebuilt during Season 32 after it was destroyed by a hurricane ) and he has a teddy bear named Radar, after Walter " Radar " O ' Reilly of M * A * S * H, who had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent.

The late 1970s saw a lull in Kool & the Gang's except for the album Open Sesame which yielded the title track " Open Sesame " which achieved some success in the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

In early 1998, they reunited to shoot a music video for the song " Just Happy to Be Me " which appeared in the Sesame Street special Elmopalooza, and also on the Grammy Award winning soundtrack album.

Ernie sang about his affection for Rubber Duckie in a skit, which aired during the first season of Sesame Street.

* Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street – teaching Occam's razor to young children, Sherlock Hemlock comes up with a complex solution to a simple problem.

" Oscar also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame Street Gang comes to the Grizzly Farm House for the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat ( whose name parodies that of the Midnight Cowboy character Ratso Rizzo ) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night.

It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian ( Nasher ) Nash imitating ' The Count ' Vampire (" Ha ha ha / I am the count ") from the Children's TV show ' Sesame Street '.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

A Sesame Street cartoon from the early 1970s features a hippo who lives in the country and likes it quiet, while being disturbed when the mouse who likes it loud moves in with her.

In recent years the latest trend in tonkotsu toppings is māyu ( sesame oil ), a blackish, aromatic oil made from either charred crushed garlic or Sesame seeds.

Sesame Street has evolved from its initial inception.

In recent years Sesame Street has faced societal and economic challenges, including changes in viewing habits of young children, competition from other shows, the development of cable television, and a drop in ratings.

According to CTW researchers Rosemarie Truglio and Shalom Fisch, Sesame Street was one of the few children's television programs to utilize a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum, garnered from formative and summative research.

In 2004, over 68 % of Sesame Streets revenue came from licenses and products such as toys and clothing.

Sesame Street used animations and short films commissioned from outside studios, interspersed throughout each episode, to help teach their viewers basic concepts like numbers and letters.

Shortly after Sesame Street debuted in the US, the CTW was approached independently by producers from several countries to produce versions of the show at home.

Cameraman Frankie Biondo worked on Sesame Street from its first episode.

Angela Santomero, one of its producers, said, " We wanted to learn from Sesame Street and take it one step further ".

Sesame Street was praised from its debut in 1969.

In 1970, Sesame Street won twenty awards, including a Peabody Award, three Emmys, an award from the Public Relations Society of America, a Clio, and a Prix Jeunesse.

: Counting with Elmo on September 14, 2010, Iron Monster and Other Sesame Heroes on October 5, 2010, and C is for Cookie Monster on October 19, 2010, but none were released from Warner Bros. for the remainder of 2009.

As a non-profit organization, a percentage of the money from any Sesame Workshop product goes to help fund Sesame Street or its international co-productions.

Sesame Street on Ice ran from 1975-1980.

Live touring show Sesame Street Live presents costumed actors and dancers as characters from the series, in original plots.

Sesame Street, insulated from the Nielsen ratings wars, holds the record at over 40 years, and still airs.

Several of the original Sesame Street writers and producers were hired from the Captain Kangaroo staff to help produce and direct the new program when it went on the air in 1969.