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TIL Rockwall, Texas is named for a rectangular rock wall buried under the city.

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QNJZ9 TIL that a Marylin Monroe impersonator lives in the real Marylin Monroe's old house.
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mx8NM TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them.
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