realitista@lemm.ee to

Today I Learned (TIL) · 5 days ago

TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.

www.theguardian.com

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

115

TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.

www.theguardian.com

realitista@lemm.ee to

Today I Learned (TIL) · 5 days ago

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Canadian town drops 'land of rape and honey' slogan

www.theguardian.com

Tisdale announces decades-old slogan, which refers to ‘rapeseed’, is being changed after years of complaints

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5748983

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Remiliera on 2025-04-26 11:15:07+00:00.

Chat

Auli
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
17·
4 days ago
The rape was refering to rape seed. Belive Canola is a modified form of it.
- Doomsider@lemmy.world
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  3·
  4 days ago
  The land of the rape seed…
  
  Thanks for clearing that up.

Today I Learned (TIL)

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?

/c/til is a community for any true knowledge that you would like to share, regardless of topic or of source.

Share your knowledge and experience!

Rules

Information must be true
Follow site rules
No, you don’t have to have literally learned the fact today
Posts must be about something you learned

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

4 users / day
528 users / week
1.21K users / month
2.14K users / 6 months
1.4K local subscribers
7.35K subscribers
431 Posts
3.7K Comments
Modlog