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TIL Giant Goose Existed

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nMgP TIL that George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. Peanut butter has been around since as early as the Aztecs.
grAPD TIL in 1964, Japan awarded the First‐Class Order of Merit of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, one of its highest decorations, to Curtis LeMay, the General who had directed the fire bombing of Japan's cities which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
p8VK8 TIL: Godzilla was originally conceived to be a cross between a gorilla and whale. The name is a hybrid of the two Japanese words for those two animals
pY1PN TIL At one point Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' were being serialized in the same Russian magazine
5Y7QD TIL Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering