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TIL that A Minnesota burglar named Nicholas Wig was caught after he logged into his own Facebook account on a computer in the house he was robbing. The homeowner returned to find his account still logged in.

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X456 TIL that Box Jellyfish venom is so powerful, human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore.
rR7b4 TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk
e0176 TIL that the Mongolian national baseball team has yet to play a full nine inning game because of the application of the mercy rule
j6x6v TIL the first Native American to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs was Ely S. Parker in 1869, he was also the only Native American to head it until 1966.
jNKmM TIL a Ladybug can travel at speeds of up to 37 MPH for up to two hours at heights of up to 3,600 feet