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TIL that Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company"), the American oil subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation, illegally supplied oil on credit to Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War and also shipped oil to Germany to support the Nazis during World War II.

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loZ4a TIL that the first free black community in the New World, Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was created by the Spanish government of St Augustine, Florida, in 1738. They began to offer asylum as early as 1687 to slaves of the British colonies, and often fought the British alongside each other.
Wk7g9 TIL contrary to his portrayal in Goldeneye 64, in the novel of Goldfinger, Oddjob was 6'6 (~2 metres) tall.
W7vw8 TIL that compasses point north because the North Pole's polarity is actually 'south'
AG6x TIL that after Key West declared itself an independent nation, the mayor appointed himself prime minister, declared war on the United States, immediately surrendered to a man in a naval uniform, then applied for a billion dollars in foreign aid.
8awvG TIL that a high school teacher wrote a set of equations, together called the Batman Equation, that form the Batman signature shape when drawn.