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TIL Peanuts grow underground and are considered a legume.

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wLpYo TIL Ashraf Marwan, son in law of former Egyptian President Gamal Nasser was referred to as 20th century greatest spy by Mossad.
x6KOD TIL about a diver, William Walker, who replaced the foundations of Winchester Catherdral and saved it from collapse
WkLbA TIL the last words of 22nd and 24th U.S president Grover Cleveland, “I have tried so hard, to do so right.” Reported by his biographers shortly after a heart attack.
P1PjO TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.