Can I just say that I learned nothing in November and be done with it? No? Okay, here goes then.
- George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. (But he did teach farmers about crop rotation and developed hundreds of ideas for dealing with the new surplus of peanuts.)
2. “In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma.” Learn more in this fascinating, tragic book by David Grann.
So those are two interesting things I learned last month.