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TIL Mr. Peanut is of British heritage and has the proper name of Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.

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Lpym TIL a poor African American washer woman saved up over $250,000 over her lifetime, then gave most of it away to start a scholarship fund for young black students.
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