Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest known olive oil was discovered in a submerged settlement off the Carmel Coast in Israel and dates back to 6000 BC. This finding proves that humanity has been extracting fats from plants for over eight thousand years.
German chemist Wilhelm Normann introduced hydrogenation in 1901 to transform liquid vegetable oils into solid fats. This process inadvertently created the global market for trans fats and margarine.
Rudolf Diesel ran his engine for the first time in Augsburg, Germany, using nothing but peanut oil as fuel. This event has since been commemorated as International Biodiesel Day.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the name canola in January 1985. This rebranding was derived from Canada Oil low acid to solve marketing problems with the word rape.
Oil palm is the highest yielding crop and is capable of producing about 4 tons of palm oil per hectare per year. This efficiency dwarfed the 0.45 tons per hectare produced by soybeans.
Occupational safety regulations set by OSHA and NIOSH limit the exposure to vegetable oil mist in the workplace to 15 mg/m3 total exposure. This limit highlights the industrial risks associated with these substances.