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TIL in the 52 BCE Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar’s troops built 25 miles of earthen walls in a few weeks, including spiked trenches, hidden pits, water-filled moats, wooden walls, stakes with iron hooks, and hundreds of lookout towers. The Gauls lost 290,000 troops, to Caesar’s 12,800 casualties.

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VBAbk TIL that when Black South African soldiers returned home after serving in WW2 they were offered bikes and shoes for their service. Whereas White South African soldiers had brand new homes built for them by the government.
GANkG TIL in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, that began on that day, and led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.
D1ooV TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
xVbWB TIL a Texas professor failed his entire class and quit, because he thought that all of his students were disruptive or dishonest and therefore didn’t deserve to pass the course. He said the class was his worst in his 20 years of teaching.
a81Z TIL the plant colloquially referred to as Mormon tea was consumed by early Mormon Pioneers contains ephedra, a stimulant more powerful than caffeine.