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TIL the oldest recorded joke in history is an Ancient Sumerian fart joke

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MaWB TIL that in 1977, the “Human Calculator” Shakuntala Devi found the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds.
N7AXE TIL 60's social activist Abbie Hoffman and author of Fuck the System ,Revolution for the Hell of It, and Steal This Book , had an FBI file that was 13,262 pages long. or, about 11 times that of Tolstoy's War and Peace
jNJJE TIL Kirk Douglas, at 101 years old, is one of the last surviving actors of the golden era of Hollywood
E1R5d TIL Despite being a devout Christian, Chuck Norris has an illegitimate daughter from an affair during his first marriage and he didn't meet her until she was 26 years old.
oRwKK TIL that GenCon was started by Gary Gygax (father of D&D) to attract wargamers and humorously called it the “Geneva Convention” because it took place in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. When several teen/college attendees showed up without having booked a hotel, Gary invited them to sleep at his house.