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TIL the name “Canola oil” was coined for marketing reasons to avoid using the word “rape”, as in “Rapeseed oil”, in the product’s name.

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b6gYZ TIL Chinese jade burial suits could take up to ten years to make and were ordered well in advance of death. Liu Sheng was known as a man who enjoyed good living and by the time he died in 113 BC his stomach had grown so large that another hundred plaques were added.
R5gV1 TIL there are 9 seasons and 93 episodes of "Super Friends", making it one of the longest running HB series
Yp5wP TIL that the term "Great Depression" was first coined in the 1870's during an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1873.
R5La1 TIL the "Pauli effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to mysteriously break in the presence of certain people. The effect is named after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose presence was associated with spontaneous mechanical failure throughout his career.
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