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TIL CANOLA is an acronym for Canadian Oil Low Acid

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xV755 TIL of Sybil Ludington. At 16, she rode twice as far as Paul Revere, 40 miles overnight, to warn of an impending British attack during the American Revolutionary War.
Z8ywv TIL of Sybil Ludington—a 16-year-old revolutionary who rode twice the distance Paul Revere did in 1777 to warn people of a British invasion. She navigated 40 miles of rainy terrain at night while avoiding British loyalists and ended up completing her mission before dawn the next day.
Brwk TIL in college Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tried to perform exorcism on a classmate who was undergoing chemotherapy.
kJWVB TIL that the living component of an acre of soil, may include 900 lb of earthworms, 2400 lb of fungi, 1500 lb of bacteria, 133 lb of protozoa and 890 lb of arthropods and algae.
9wDjp TIL in the 1870s, Steinway & Sons built a company town in a remote part of Queens to isolate their workers from the influence of anarchists and socialists in Lower Manhattan. That area later became Astoria, now considered the US’s premier socialist stronghold.