WTH just happened??? I let my toddler smack my keyboard and now whenever typing a yet to be understood collection of keys, I trigger some sort of typing script that slowly types out things like

TIL. Years.

... over the course of ten seconds.

The strings it types are defined by the respective hotkey and the script competes with me typing other stuff. I don't directly recognize any of the strings but my toddler didn't come up with those neither.

How did that happen and how can I switch it off?

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Sticky keys?

Press shift 5 times quickly

According to https://superuser.com/questions/441608/my-keyboard-is-typing-by-itself-could-there-be-a-ghost-in-it I might have a faulty keyboard although their ghost key strokes look much more random than mine. But ... unplugging the keyboard and plugging back in did resolve the issue.

But ... WTH? Why would a keyboard store "TIL. Years." and print it out ... slowly ... whenever triggered a certain way? Why would there be a concept of pausing output for seconds?