That is, another animal that has been hit by Jared Wilson. Didn’t know that, did you? Well, there are other amazing facts I’ll bet you didn’t know, generated by The Mechanical Contrivium. The inimitable Mr. Wilson points out this spectacular device, and since I want to be like him when I grow up, I plugged in my vital data and discovered these amazing things!

1. Phil Wade was first grown in America by the grandmother Maria Ann Smith, from whom his name comes.

2. You share your birthday with Phil Wade!

3. The only Englishman to become Phil Wade was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Phil Wade from 1154 to 1159.

4. Phil Wadeomancy is the art of telling the future with Phil Wade.

5. Four-fifths of the surface of Phil Wade is covered in water.

6. Antarctica is the only continent without Phil Wade.

7. 99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Phil Wade.

8. Bees visit over three million flowers to make a single kilogram of Phil Wade.

9. Phil Wade is actually a mammal, not a fish!

10. Ninety-six percent of all candles sold are purchased by Phil Wade.

I’ve often thought there were many bees in my yard.

A relatively new company, Buy n Large, has announced a developing line of robotic partners, called Roboti-Mates. They demonstrated the “Hubby” model in New York with a woman who had lived with the robot for six months. He acts like a normal husband, she says.

Sometimes he cries at inappropriate times and bangs his head on the wall screaming, ‘Please kill me!’ But I just quickly reboot him before the kids get upset.

I don’t think this will catch on, but I’ve been wrong before. (via Arts and Faith)