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TIL that the American oil company Texaco directly supported the Spanish Fascist Fransisco Franco in his war against democracy in the 1930’s. He provided fuel to the Nazis and the Spanish/Italian Fascists and intel to help bomb Democratic fuel ships

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6aOW TIL In the 80s, Weird Al turned down $5 million dollars to promote a beer brand, since a lot of his fans were “young and impressionable.”
8vo8 TIL that in 1995 Kia was showing a range extended gas/electric (the Kev-4 concept car) with regenerative braking and solar powered air conditioner. It would drive on electricity alone for 117 miles. Its 880cc gas engine could stretch that farther. This was 15 years before the Chevy Volt.
b6nOj TIL the first European tropical colonial outpost was the town of Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha) founded in 1462 by Portugal, six years after they discovered Cabo Verde.
DQ94P TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald was Teddy Roosevelt's third cousin, whereas FDR was Teddy's fifth cousin.
JrQm TIL there is a species of land snail called “Crikey steveirwini”.