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TIL Jimmy Carter has to go past a giant grinning peanut statue every week to get to church. He reportedly hates the thing.

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lovxN TIL humans are driving mammals to shift their activity from day to night making many of them nocturnal.
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8amvb TIL that Fritz Haber, the "father of chemical warfare," created the Haber-Bosch process of synthesizing ammonia for fertilizers used in over half of the global population's current food production.
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4Xm85 TIL that a ballerina was diagnosed with a detached retina in 1941 and had eye surgery. She had bed rest for 3 months, but still moved her feet. The op failed, as did another. For her third, she had a year’s bed rest. Her husband sat with her every day, using their fingers to teach her ballet.