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

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xVE7g TIL In 1889, Mark Twain predicted the nature of trench warfare. He pitted 53 men versus 30,000 knights. Crouching behind minefields and electrified fences, and manning Gatling guns that “vomit death,” the time-traveler and his companions mow down rank upon gleaming rank of their armored assailants.
4kn5J TIL: Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada, had a lifespan that overlapped with the lives of every single other Canadian PM, from Sir. John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.
nvBr TIL a lawyer died by trying to prove to a bunch of students, that a window on the 24th story was unbreakable. The window gave way and he fell to his death.
wLa1o TIL until the 1952 Olympics, cavalry soldiers were not allowed to compete in the modern pentathlon in the Olympics, due to being considered professional athletes, because they rode and trained horses for a living. Cavalry officers were however considered amateurs and allowed to compete before 1952.
R7xW7 TIL that Michael Dorn has more on-screen appearances playing the same character (Worf) than any other actor in the Star Trek franchise: 282 episodes and four movies