It's National Peanut Butter Lover's Day! Here are a few FACTS about peanuts to celebrate...
1. Peanuts grow underground. That's why they're technically a legume, not a nut. Nuts grow on trees.
2. It takes 540 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. That's according to the National Peanut Board. Anything labeled peanut butter has to be at least 90% peanuts.
3. There are 6 cities in the U.S. with "peanut" in their name. They are: Peanut, California . . . Peanut, Tennessee . . . Peanut West Virginia .
. . Peanut, Pennsylvania . . . Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania . . . and Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania.
4. Peanut butter was originally sold as a peanut substitute for people with no teeth. A year after it was invented in 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (yes, THAT Kellogg) tried to market it as a good source of protein for toothless people.
5. The record for the farthest a peanut has ever been thrown is just over 124 feet. 124 feet and 4 inches to be exact. A guy in the U.K. did it in 2008, and it still stands.