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Marine Invents Edible Crayon
- Frank Manto, a former Marine, created vanilla-flavoured crayons that actually draw and are edible.
- He and pastry chef Cassandra Gordon crowdfund them at crayonsreadytoeat.com to sell MRE-style packs.
Crayola 'Leftolas' And Name Origin
- Small leftover crayon ends are nicknamed "left olas" and are collected and remelted into new crayons for hospitals.
- Alice Binney coined 'Crayola' from French cray and an oily Latin root, oddly despite crayons using wax.
Met Police Had A Tea Van Called T-Pot 1
- The Metropolitan Police once ran a branded catering van called T-Pot 1 to bring tea, coffee and sandwiches to officers on long duties.
- Dan Schreiber says the service was later outsourced and the original T-Pot vehicles have been decommissioned.