› added 1 month ago

6

TIL that the term "canola oil" a contraction of “Canada” and “oil“, was a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, "rapeseed oil"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0eW5 TIL more than 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence had made false confessions; researchers say they occur as a result of police using force, threat, exhaustion, hunger, lies, and intimidation during interrogations.
0wPRy TIL Queen Elizabeth has been married to her 3rd cousin for over 70 years.
R5o4j TIL Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She spent almost three days in space and is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission
b6XLQ TIL the Netherlands has a Quick-Response Team of firefighters, outfitted with military-style tactical gear
5YD9n TIL about autological words ("English", "parasyllabic", "unhyphenated") which describe themselves, and heterological words ("long", "hyphenated", "monosyllabic") which do not describe themselves. "Heterological" itself cannot logically be autological or heterological: The "Grelling–Nelson Paradox"