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TIL Jim Henson once made 179 ads for a Wilkins Coffee company that depicted ‘Muppet-prototypes’ where one puppet who didn’t drink Wilkins Coffee would get injured and beat up by another puppet, he later went on to become Kermit The Frog and signed a deal with Wilkins Tea

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