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TIL that the oldest “yo mamma” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in Iraq in 1976. The tablet has since been lost, but the text remains preserved.

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W7pWL TIL That Abraham Lincoln once pooped in his own hat because of a prank gone wrong.
6E5xm TIL in 1954 Israel tried to create a false flag attack in Egypt by planting bombs in Egyptian, American, and British civilian targets. Muslims were to be blamed in order to convince British troops to stay in the Suez canal. Israel denied any involvement before awarding the agents 51 years later.
78ZnX TIL of Patagonian Welsh, a dialect found in Argentina developed by Welsh immigrants in the 1870s in an effort to preserve the Welsh language.
jNK9v TIL under President Reagans directive, the United States (via the CIA) funneled more than $2 billion in guns and money to the mujaheddin (which became the Taliban) during the 1980s to defeat and remove the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action program since World War II.
kL7d TIL that during the celebration of Roman Triumph, a servant would be tasked with standing behind a victorious General and whispering in his ear “Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori.” meaning “Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man! Remember that you will die.”