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TIL: Ranch dressing was invented by an Alaskan Plumber

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N7m8M TIL that Shakespeare’s scripts contain over 2200 never-before-seen words—a diverse collection of loan-words from foreign languages, compound words from existing English terms, nouns turned into verbs, and creatively applied prefixes—many of which have entered into everyday language.
P1aXO TIL that from 1801 to 1810 a pirate named Zheng Yi Sao was active in the South China Sea, eventually rising to lead a pirate confederacy. When she retired in 1810, she had 24 ships and 1433 pirates under her personal command. She later served as a privateer and retired to run a casino, dying at 68.
xVy4b TIL Dirk Willems, jailed for his devotion to being an Anabaptist, escaped from prison. But when the guard pursuing him fell through the ice, Willems turned around to save the guard. He was then recaptured, tortured, and killed.
nWgB TIL The Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that the Earth is a self-regulating organism, was partially developed by Lynn Margulis, a.k.a. Carl Sagan’s wife.
ojd7 TIL: In 1957, a luxury airliner mysteriously crashed in the Pacific while carrying multiple people with motive, means, and opportunity to cause the disaster. The mystery has been unsolved for almost 60 years.