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TIL that the term "canola oil" is short for "Canada Oil low acid," a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, "rapeseed oil"

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p8nYe TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.
PYRLE TIL that in the original German version of 99 Red Balloons by Nina, the balloons aren't red. The German lyrics make no mention of balloon colours anywhere in the song.
WkPDA TIL Bill Cosby in 1969 was given a “Man of the Year” award in which in his acceptance speech the comedian "proposed changing the name of the annual honor" to "the nice guy as far as we know" award.
0wyD1 TIL after objections from National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the submarine SSN-705 was renamed USS City Of Corpus Christi to better reflect the ship honoring the city in Texas as opposed to the Body of Christ.
nNkr TIL that thunderstorms create antimatter