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TIL The world's oldest "Yo mama" joke is 3,500 years old

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pQxb TIL: A koi named Hanako was the oldest know captive fish. When she died in 1977 she was determined to be 226 years old. Not only was she older than the United States, she also predated the European discovery of Australia by 19 years.
7r7OZ TIL The hottest place on Earth lost the title it had held for 90 years, when it was found that the man making the original measurements likely misread the thermometer.
b9QeE TIL: some people cut their hair with a vacuum
KOXP9 TIL At age 9 eminem was knocked unconscious by a childhood bully with a snowball with a hard object inside, and was found hours later in the school bathroom in a puddle of blood. This attack resulted in a 10 day coma that many doctors thought he wouldn't come out of.
x6mW5 TIL Historically, caltrops were part of defences that served to slow the advance of troops and in the modern era have been used by protesters during labor disputes