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TIL Peanuts grow underground and are considered a legume.

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gx8X TIL in 1951 a 21 year old Clint Eastwood was a passenger aboard a Douglas AD-1 bomber that ran out of fuel and ditched off the coast of California. He escaped serious injury and swam 3 miles to shore.
0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.
negmW TIL the actor who played Pugsley in the 1990s Addams Family movies is the brother of Modern Family's Ariel Winter.
b9Pw0 TIL Red Summer: January 1 and September 14, 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 African Americans, with 16 hanged and others shot; while another 8 men were burned at the stake.
kOARd TIL that Bob Graham's (38th Governor of Florida) political campaign included performing a full eight-hour workday of the various jobs that Floridian voters held. Starting in 1974, and totaling 408 workdays, jobs he worked included being a teacher, police officer, busboy, and construction worker.