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TIL that the first historical record of a YO MOMMA joke was 3,500 years ago by a Babylonian student, chiseled onto a cuneiform tablet.

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wGmJ TIL In 2005 after Hurrican Katrina hit the United States,the Islamic Republic of Iran offered Humanitarian Aid and 20 Million Barrels of Oil(~$2 Billion).
kJA01 TIL-No one was ever burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials instead, the accused were hung or pressed to death.
EpV7 TIL all living humans are related to a single woman through an broken, maternal line. She is known as Mitochondrial Eve and is estimated to have lived around 100,000 - 200,000 years ago.
LQOrr TIL that during Oliver Cromwell’s military campaign in Ireland, his forces allegedly beat an Irish commander to death with his own wooden leg, because they thought he had concealed gold in it.
KY609 TIL that there was a 4th Crusade to retake Jerusalem. However, the crusaders got sidetracked and ended up sacking Constantinople, capital of the Christian controlled Byzantine Empire, and they ended up getting excommunicated.