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Although commercial peanut butter as we know it was first sold in the 1890s, it wouldn't be until the 1920s that people began making pb and J sandwiches.

For most of it's early life, jar peanut butter was sold as a savory spread meant to be put on things like celery and onions (yes that was a real thing it was for years) so mixing it with something sweet like jelly was seen as ridiculous.
 
A Grey Cat said:
Although commercial peanut butter as we know it was first sold in the 1890s, it wouldn't be until the 1920s that people began making pb and J sandwiches.

For most of it's early life, jar peanut butter was sold as a savory spread meant to be put on things like celery and onions (yes that was a real thing it was for years) so mixing it with something sweet like jelly was seen as ridiculous.
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And contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent it.
 
Bunny Tracks said:
And contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent it.
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Yeah it had been around for almost as long as peanuts have been cultivated.

Also another peanut butter fact. The Wikipedia article on peanut butter to this very day is a semi protected article. Meaning only registered and trust worthy users are allowed to edit it. Why is that so? Because of a joke made at the end of an American Dad episode black mystery month.

 
During the Spanish Civil war both sides got armed and supported by ideological foreign allies. The national side was supported by Nazi Germany and the Spanish Republic by the USSR. Despite all of this that you might call aid, both sides paid their allies for all the weapons, vehicles, fuel and equipment they got. Franco paid Germany with food, coal, lumber, iron and mining rights in Spain that would not be used because of WWII. The republican side paid the USSR with gold from the Bank of Spain. But once Stalin saw that the Republic was on the way to defeat thanks to the many NVDK commissars that were in Spain, he took all the gold payments and left the republic to fend for itself.
 
Pepsi got it's name because much like Coca Cola it was originally sold as a medicine. In this case a stomach ache medicine as Pepsi comes from the Latin word for stomach peptic or pectin. Similar to the name pepto bismal.
 
Tom Cruise had two movies win awards in 1988. Cocktail won the Worst Picture Razzie while Rain Man won for Best Picture. In doing so, he became the first actor to star in a Worst Picture Razzie winner and Best Picture Oscar winner in the same year.
 
Black cats tend to get a bad reputation for being bad luck even today but there were a few places where they were actually liked. In Scotland a black cat was often seen as a symbol of fortune and prosperity, and on the ilse of Wales black cats were given as good luck wedding presents to a
brides. A black cat (like all cats) was thought to be good luck in Japan.
 
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A Grey Cat said:
Pepsi got it's name because much like Coca Cola it was originally sold as a medicine. In this case a stomach ache medicine as Pepsi comes from the Latin word for stomach peptic or pectin. Similar to the name pepto bismal.
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Dude, half the shit you post here is flat out wrong, and another quarter is somewhere between urban myth and schoolyard rumor.

If you keep posting nonfacts in a ‘facts’ thread, I am going to double check every one of your posts and rub your face in every error until you learn to research your ‘facts’ before posting.
 
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Dude, half the shit you post here is flat out wrong, and another quarter is somewhere between urban myth and schoolyard rumor.

If you keep posting nonfacts in a ‘facts’ thread, I am going to double check every one of your posts and rub your face in every error until you learn to research your ‘facts’ before posting.
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ok OK no more posting if you're gonna play teacher and scold me for it.. Well except this one which is more arbitrary than anything. Something simple and I double checked it.

Florida is the only East Coast state that was not part of the American colonies due to being owned by Spain unil 1821.
 
SITHRAK! said:
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Dude, half the shit you post here is flat out wrong, and another quarter is somewhere between urban myth and schoolyard rumor.

If you keep posting nonfacts in a ‘facts’ thread, I am going to double check every one of your posts and rub your face in every error until you learn to research your ‘facts’ before posting.
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To echo another, why must you turn this thread into a temple of lies?
 
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I'm cross-posting this from the Historical Photos thread.

King Louis Philippe I was the first, last, and only French king to be photographed:

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This particular photo was taken in 1842. Louis Philippe I was also the first European monarch to be photographed.
 
I know i might be sperging too much about the Spanish Civil war, but i've recently done works about it and it was very interesting.

The final blow to the Spanish Republic wasn't a military offensive by Franco, but a civil war within the republic. Since Franco crushed the resistance in the north and started to blockade the mediterranean spanish cities, most politicians and army officials were in favour of surrendering since it was a pointless effort to keep fighting. But the president of the republic, backed by communists, wasn't willing to surrender and hoped that a bigger conflict would break out in Europe that would force the UK and France to aid him. All of this failed after the offensive of the Ebro, but even with that Negrín didn't wanted to surrender and so a conspiracy was orchestrated by politicians and army generals to hope for better terms of surrender with Franco. The started a coup d'etat and the communist politicians inmediately fled the country, only for Franco to not grant them anything other than an unconditional surrender and beginning his final push to Madrid.
 
In 1959, a female rhinoceros named Cacareco managed to get elected for a seat in the City Council in the city of São Paulo. She garnered 100k votes. For obvious reasons, she never took office.

In a similar fashion, a goat named Ioiô earned enough votes for the City Council of Fortaleza in 1922.

All these were supposed to be protest votes, to show people were dissatisfied with the politics of the time. Nowadays, such stunts are prohibited, but we still elect creatures that are not supposed to hold a public seat as a form of "protest". The marvels of Democracy™️.
 
During the Spanish Civil War, the national side quickly built up an intelligence service to create a spy network. This organization was named Servicio de Inteligencia Militar y Policial (Military and Police Intelligence Service) or simply known as the "SIMP".
 
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