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George Washington Carver’s quiet revolution

Crysta Henthorne
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KCUR 89.3

George Washington Carver is slotted in American history lessons as "the peanut guy." But this Missourian gave us biofuels, food trucks, plant based meats, alternative medicines, and so much more.

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