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TIL There were black slaveowners in America

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kJBJ5 TIL London City Airport isn't British owned. It is owned by Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and the Royal Family of Kuwait.
OokV4 TIL of Hans Oster, a Nazi general and one of the highest ranking officers who despised Hitler and help save Jews from getting arrested. He was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed in April 1945, one month before the war was over
k4oe TIL a fireman in Thailand dressed up as Spiderman to coax a superhero-loving autistic boy from a window ledge.
5V4ln TIL that only 46 years after Magellan's voyage the Spanish Empire set up a large scale trade route from Mexico to the Philippines, trading Mexican silver for Asian goods such as silk, porcelain and spices
neBg9 TIL Thomas Edison listened to the piano through his teeth. As he was completely deaf in one ear and could barely hear in the other he would chomp into the wood of the piano and absorb the sound waves into his skull.