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TIL Sigmund Freud wrote that there are only seven jokes or wit that have ever been written: Absurdity, allusion, comparison, exaggeration, faulty thinking, word-play and reproach

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69YmW TIL Vietnamese money is called the dong.
X0J56 TIL that Louis Armstrong's song "What a Wonderful World" failed to make the record charts in the USA on its initial release in 1967, because the president of his new record label refused to promote it. It finally made the US Top 40 in 1988 after being featured in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam".
e0Vkn TIL: A submarine ran out of fuel about 100 miles from hawaii while searching for a lost tug. Sub R14 had empty reserve tanks, no radio communications and a week's worth of food. Crew rigged up blankets and mattress covers as sails. It sailed back to Hawaii over 5 days.
J1KW4 TIL Confucius had three thousand students, but only 72 mastered what he taught and he deemed them all scholars of extraordinary ability
VMojk TIL Roger Taylor, Queens drummer, has the same 4 octave vocal range as Freddie Mercury and Aretha Franklin