I've raised peanuts and know there are many more 3-peanut and 4-peanut pods than would be indicated by the peanuts you buy in the store, which have been culled and graded for uniformity.
Same with odd-shaped potatoes and carrots--they don't all come out of the ground with their characteristic lumpy and conical/cylindrical shape. Potatoes can look like hearts, swans, ducks, hippopotamuses, etc., and carrots like corkscrews or banyan trees.
The variety pf peanut planted makes a difference, too:
"Virginia and Runner types, mostly low-growing plants with usually two large seeds per pod, are the best producers for most gardens; Spanish types are mostly erect plants, and produce pods often having three or four small seeds per pod."
http://www.walterreeves.com/food-gardening/peanut/