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TIL I learned that George Washington Carver, the "Peanut Guy", was also the first black American to receive a bachelors degree in the US in 1894. He also discovered dozens of new use cases from sweet potatoes. So he was so much more than just a peanut guy! Powerful black history facts.

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VNLm TIL that an archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient ‘sex-and-mushroom’ cult.”
D1MLe TIL North Korea has made a single video game. "Pyongyang Racer" is a racing game reminiscent of 32-bit era graphics. It was developed by university students and published by the country's travel company
waJ7 TIL of the Mountains of Kong, a West African mountain range that was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.
8a9YX TIL about a fatal submarine accident from 1963. A nuclear sub, the USS Thresher (SSN-593), sank 610 m (2,000 ft) imploding in 0.1 seconds killing all 128 crew members. During a failed deep dive test, its theorized the sub lost power and its vital ballast systems froze, rendering the ship unusable.
Y7py7 TIL that January is the first month of the Gregorian calendar because it is named after the roman god of all beginnings, Janus.