the real-life toys that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh characters and the classic books still exist. Better yet, you can visit them for free at the main branch of the New York Public Library!

In the 1925 Christmas Eve edition of The London News, English author A.A. Milne published “The Wrong Sort of Bees,” the first story that mentioned his lovable bear Winnie The Pooh by name.

Life is full of little mysteries, like what those black clumps on trees really are (nope, they’re not nests) and why towels have those flat, non-fluffy stripes (they’re called dobby borders, BTW).