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TIL the oldest known "Yo Mama" joke was found on a 3500 y.o. broken tablet in Iraq. And is missing the punchline.

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8e7L8 TIL in 2005 the US Navy conducted a test called SinkEx on how an enemy might sink one of its Supercarriers could. After four weeks of firing, the carrier remained and had to be sunk by hand-placed explosives
8M0P TIL that not only is the woman in the “We Can Do It” poster not Rosie the Riveter, but the poster was meant to remind employees considering unions that they could be replaced by women, not to inspire women to work.
8JYZ TIL multitasking is a myth. What we call multitasking is actually ‘switch-tasking.’ There is actually a stop/start process that occurs in the brain when we switch between tasks. This process causes “more mistakes, and over time it can be energy sapping.”
78WWZ TIL on a clear day you can see 6 different states from the empire state building. New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
QNJjE TiL jazz musician Lester Young is said to have popularized the use of the word "cool" to mean something fashionable. He also coined the term "bread" as slang for money, often asking "How does the bread smell?" when asking how much a gig was going to pay.