› added 7 years ago

643

TIL that "Canola" is an acronym for [CAN]adian [O]il - [L]ow [A]cid

Read more rd.com

via reddit.com

P10EZ TIL about Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate in U.S. history, who was a suffragist, women's rights advocate, entrepreneur, and political activist. Her campaign encountered obstacles due to her age and imprisonment on obscenity charges just before the election.
ZX0Q TIL of Ryan Holle, convicted for first degree murder after lending his car to a friend who then committed robbery and murder without his knowledge.
XVNj TIL there have been no successful attempts to reach the Sentinelese people, rendering them completely isolated from the rest of the world
B6d TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding
Z8EPB TIL over 150 bison live on an island off the coast of California. Originally 14 of them were transported to the island in 1924 for a silent film and were then left there by the production crew where they flourished.