The plastic tips on the end of shoelaces are called aglets, from the Old French aiguillette, which is a diminutive form of the French word for needle.  Before the invention of buttons, aglets were very helpful in fastening clothes. 

Before the invention of buttons????

Buttons have been around for thousands and thousands of years, but apparently more for decoration than functionality.

Functional buttons used to close or fasten clothes first appeared in Germany in the 13th century.

When you start with an exciting fact about aglets and then move to buttons, you know it’s going to be a good day.  No ifs, Ags, or Butts. 

First (and worst) pun using “aglets” and “buttons.”

Nazi Germany initiated the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.  Hitler smoked in his younger years, but unfortunately gave it up when he got older.  He viewed smoking as “the wrath of the red man against the white man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”  Could also be the highly addictive nicotine, but whatever.  Hitler expressed that “so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning.”  Wow, what a humanitarian.  Inversely, many cigarettes felt that too many good men had been lost to Hitler poisoning.