Celebrate National Peanut butter on March 1, 2016 For all you peanut lovers this will be a fun time for you to celebrate with some fun facts and some recipes. Enjoy the day Learning about something that is healthy and delicious. 5 Fun Facts 1.) Did you know it takes 540 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of peanut butter. 2.) Did you know two of our US presidents were peanut farmers, Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter. 3.)here's a fun fact Asronaut Alan Shepard brought a peanut to the moon. 4.) did you know there is six cities in the US named Peanut. Peanut ,California, Lower Peanut Pennsylvania, Upper Peanut Pennsylvania, Peanut Pennsylvania, Peanut Tennessee, Peanut West Virginia. 5.)Goober- is a nickname for peanuts comes from Nuguba, The Congo language name for Peanut. Learn the facts about the peanut and how, Peanut Butter became a National Day. nationalpeanutboard.org Learn How to make Peanut Butter