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TIL Most of the stories about the Dvorak keyboard being superior to the standard QWERTY come from a Navy study conducted by August Dvorak, who owned the patent on the Dvorak keyoard.

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xVWMk TIL about the traffic-inducing game of “leapfrog” played between truck drivers, where they get points for accumulating “bugs” (car drivers) stuck behind them as they do their “leap” in the left lane past the other trucks. The record is a 57-bug trail of cars stuck behind the leaping truck for 29 min
rrL1 TIL of John Laufer, the man who stopped Mall Spree Killer Sylvia Seegrist. He did not know that she was shooting real bullets and simply walked up to her and grabbed the gun from her as it was annoying. He thought it was a fake gun it was a Halloween prank.
ne4PB TIL The guy who shot down a F-117 Nighthawk over Serbia is now running a bakery, and him and the pilot have become friends.
0dA7v TIL the roar in the MGM lion is really a tiger
LQMN0 TIL in the early 1860s the New York based William H. Webb Shipyard in New York built two ironclad warships for the Italian navy.