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TIL of a house burglar who was caught because he took the decision to log on to Facebook using the victim’s computer and forgot to log off.

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Eg110 TIL that in 1989, a pilot misunderstood a flight plan, resulting in the plane crashing in the Amazon jungle.
OGZ1a TIL the idiom “the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray” originates from a Scottish poem in 1786: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley, / An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, / For promised joy”
0wpXy TIL Chinese internet users bypass internet censorship of offensive words by using homonyms based on memetic mythical creatures. Eg. 'Fa Ke You/ 法克鱿' meaning 'Fuck you', its direct transliteration into English. Literally, it is "French-Croatian Squid".
bJ1Q TIL 50% of Toronto’s populace was born outside Canada
0wRny TIL There is no such character as the “Mad Hatter” in Alice In Wonderland, only “The Hatter”. He had a mad tea party and the two concepts merged.