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TIL George Washington Carver had nothing to do with inventing peanut butter, it was Marcellus Gilmore Edson, a Canadian

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0wVd1 TIL The Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' was the most expensive single produced at that time. It was inspired by Brian Wilson's mother telling him dogs could tell if a person was good or bad based on their vibrations. Wilson considered the song to be "his whole life performance in one track".
Z8oAR TIL that the first ever phone to run in an Android system is the HTC Dream also known as HTC G1 or T-Mobile G1, as it was set to revolutionize the smartphone market. Aside from running in an Android system, it had 3G support and 3.2 inch screen smartphone and it was released in 2008
E16Z7 TIL Apollo 12 was struck by lightning during launch and was on the verge of being aborted before a single Flight Controller realised that flipping a little known switch would restore enough systems to save the mission.
NXm08 TIL gold can be very toxic if it's in a biologically active compound. A common use for gold salts is rheumatoid arthritis.
Y7bZx TIL Bhutan is the world’s only carbon negative country since 2017, thanks to its forests and the generation and export of renewable energy