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TIL that the oldest yo mama joke is on a 3500 year old Babylonian tablet

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p8A08 TIL that in "Take Me Home, Country Roads," the ode to West Virginia , the Shenandoah River is one of two place names mentioned. But the Shenandoah spends only its sixteen final miles in West Virginia. The rest--about 230 miles of main stem and combined North and South Forks--is in Virginia.
mxl9x TIL that Japan has blue traffic lights in some areas because historically the Japanese used the same word for green and blue.
mxBjx TIL in 2015, a plane made an emergency landing after the crew received an indication of smoke in the cargo hold. It turns out to be caused by the 2,186 sheep farting onboard.
BreNW TIL UPS trademarked the colour brown
Bga6k TIL one of the earliest pregnancy tests was a fish, called a European Bitterling. If injected with a pregnant person's urine, its ovipositor (egg-laying organ) will protrude, indicating a positive result