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TIL that a loving touch causes female cockroaches to make babies faster

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boZQ [TIL] Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a written plea to Adolf Hitler asking him to stop Germany’s aggressive advances in Europe. Hitler responded with a televised conference mocking each point FDR made in a speech that lasted over 2 ½ hours.
6E8Kl TIL Apple was fined $9 million in Australia because it misled hundreds of Australian customers by ‘bricking’ their iPhones in a software update and then denying them repairs. The customers were informed they were no longer entitled to a repair because they had used a third party to fix their devices
a1oA TIL Winston Churchill smoked 8-10 cigars everyday. Legend has it that when meeting with foreign heads of state, Churchill would insert a straightened paper clip into his cigar to keep the ash from falling and unnerve the other man with the distractingly long ash.
8aDaL TIL that a cat named Orlando once beat financial experts in an investing competition by randomly throwing a toy mouse on a grid of numbers that each correspond to different companies
0w1l5 TIL The supermarket escalator where North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was last seen in public before death has been turned into a shrine