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TIL: Ranch dressing was invented by an Alaskan Plumber

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kgvd TIL a stenographer (or court reporter) types phonetically using a 22-keyed unmarked keyboard at 200+ WPM and 98.5% accuracy.
X1RX TIL that in 12,000 years, due to the wobbling of the earth’s axis, the North Star will shift from Polaris [in Ursa Minor] to Vega [in Lyra], and winter in the Northern Hemisphere will occur in June rather than January.
epkAJ TIL that Teddy Roosevelt, while in the White House, had 10 Dogs, 5 Guinea Pigs, 2 Cats, a Hen and a Rooster, a Macaw, a Barn Owl, a Horned Frog, a Rat, a Rabbit, a Snake and 2 Ponies. To make things more interesting he also had a Badger, a Laughing a Hyena, a Bear and a Lion
MDb8 TIL Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys is a gifted guitarist who is in a band with Alex Lifeson, founding guitarist of Rush. They are called Bubbles and the Shit Rockers.
XbdQ TIL a 5-year-old hacked an Xbox live login screen and now he’s a Microsoft ‘security researcher’