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Peanut butter has been an America favorite for so many years. We grew up eating it and so did many of our parents. This is why these facts about one of America's favorite foods may completely take you by surprise!

Facts About Peanut Butter You Probably Didn't Know Are:

A lunch regular
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have been an American lunch favorite since World War II, and nowhere more so than in the lunch bags of school children. In fact, despite how there's no such thing as an average person a mathematically average person would consume 3000 PB&J's in their lifetime.

Greater than the sum of its parts
Assuming you won't have any dedicated peanut farming equipment since you'e so anti-technology all of a sudden, you'll have to pick 540 peanuts by hand to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. If you do have the patience for that, however, just a single acre of peanuts would be enough to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

Not just for eating
If you ever find yourself struggling to remove the sticky residue from a label, then peanut butter might just be the solution you didn't know you had! After removing as much of the label as you can, spread peanut butter over the rest and let it sit—about ten minutes later, the residue should easily rub away.

Just one (humongous) peanut butter cup
Nick Monte, owner of the Village Chocolate Shoppe in Bennington, Vermont. In 2013, he made it his mission to create the world's largest peanut butter cup, and he succeeded when he cooked up a 60-inch wide, 230-pound magnificent monster of a confection.

Not your mother's PB & J recipe
In 2010, at the Great American Peanut Butter festival in Grand Saline, Texas, the world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich was made. Containing almost 500 pounds of peanut butter, over 700 pounds of bread, and not a small dollop of jelly, this epic lunchbox filler ended up weighing 1342 pounds.

What If Your Favorite Type Of Peanut Butter?

These surprising facts about peanut butter may make you want to buy a few extra jars the next time you go to the store. Did you know these facts about peanut butter?

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