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TIL the first recorded use of the word “crunk” was by Dr. Seuss in 1972

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kd0m TIL that Hitchcock was the first person recorded on sound film saying the “"That’s What She said”- joke in 1929
V9K8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper published, “The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer’s block”, was written by Dennis Upper and published in 1974. It contains no text except for the title.
6EKlY TIL the microstate of San Marino has the oldest constitution still being used. It was ratified in 1600, and the US Constitution is the oldest for a sovereign country, and it was ratified on June 21, 1788.
Lkdjm TIL that 40 percent of Cambodians suffer psychological problems as a result of the Khmer Rouge massacre that killed a third of its population between 1975 and 1979
VBp14 TIL those who pay off their credit card balance each month are known as “deadbeats” in the financial world