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TIL The Canterbury Earthquake distorted train tracks in 2010

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nWyXd TIL Hearthstone has no concept of INFINITY and has introduced a card that gives infinite life steal, increase cost, and minion spawn. Making it literally impossible to counter it that play. Which is baffling because it's a card game that heavily relies on math.
78oJr TIL American sculptor Bob Cassilly, best known for creating the City Museum in St. Louis, was present when Laszlo Toth vandalized Michelangelo's Pietà in Italy. Cassilly struck Toth multiple times before pulling him away from the statue.
4D1N TIL that legendary Hollywood producer Hal Roach would employ someone called a “wildie” who was either an insane person or a drunk to sit in his writers’ room and spout crazy ideas whenever they had writer’s block
YpVxr TIL that, with war looming, President Wilson - had he lost the 1916 election - pragmatically planned to avoid a long lame-duck period by appointing his opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, with Wilson & his VP then resigning, thereby making Hughes president ahead of schedule.
wPX6 TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.