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TIL The Canterbury Earthquake distorted train tracks in 2010

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AD78x TIL the people of St. Pauli, Hamburg, were sick of their district smelling like urine because of nightclub patrons relieving themselves on the street. So they painted the buildings with special paint that repels water so forcefully public urinators end up peeing on themselves.
QNvBd TIL the Devil's Advocate used to be an official position in the Catholic Church whose job was to find evidence against a saint candidate.
d8QLZ TIL the red grapefruit comes from a 1950s gov nuclear program called "Atoms for Peace" where they would mutate crops with radioactive material. In these "Gamma Gardens" ones grown close to the radioactive source died, but ones farther away turned red
Orj7 TIL some Chuck E. Cheese’s locations offer Sensory Sensitive Sundays for children with special needs. This includes light and noise reduction in the store and special training for staff.
R5wr6 TIL that the passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird on Earth, numbering around 3-5 billion. They were so abundant that 30,000 birds had to be killed to claim the prize in a hunting competition. However, due to widespread hunting and deforestation, they became completely extinct by 1914