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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"

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KGZQ TIL that the cookiecutter shark feeds on animals much larger than itself by taking out small round cuts of meat from their bodies.
neEEW TIL The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
69YjJ TIL Sharks Are Actually Older Than Trees
rNYAM TIL that the coldest temperature in the universe, as far as scientists can tell, occurred on Earth. In 2003, physicists at MIT reduced the temperature of a cloud of sodium molecules to 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.
9pVX TIL telephone Area Codes in North America were assigned based on the length of time a rotary dial phone took to dial the area code, so larger cities have lower numbers.