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TIL that according to iRobot CEO, Colin Angle, Roomba owners get emotionally attached to their vaccums, often giving them names, treating them as a family member and even refusing replacements, with one woman refusing to return her defective roomba, named Rosie.

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9wYAM TIL that the ‘Easter Bunny’ originated in Germany because of its prolific fertility, symbolizing birth and the start of life around springtime. During famine, eggs were dyed and gifted to children in Easter time and like that, the two concepts merged into the modern day Easter Bunny.
wopBJ TIL during the age of sail if a group was stranded without food it was customary to kill and eat a member of the group, with the victim determined by lot. The practice was largely ended via a legal decision in 1884.
Wk4LA TIL late medieval and early modern European cartographers believed that compasses consistently pointed North because there was a massive, perfectly circular island made of naturally-magnetic black rock at the North Pole.
VMwPp TIL that when a Jewish political opponent accused him of anti-semitism Fiorello La Guardia challenged him to a debate in Yiddish. The man couldn’t speak Yiddish so he declined - and lost the election.
4XleR TIL that the Water Boatman insect uses its penis to make a 99.2 decibel mating call, making it, pound for pound, the loudest creature on Earth.