Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down16
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-linkTIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoIt was originally designed to run on peanut oil.
It was originally designed to run on peanut oil.