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TIL that the oldest known joke in history is a Sumerian fart joke from 1900 BC

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1jjD TIL that lobster used to be considered a “poor man’s meal” in the early 1800’s, and it used to be fed to prisoners, apprentices, and slaves.
eerk TIL in the 1938 World Cup Sweden advanced to the quarterfinals due to an Austrian forfeit. The Austrians were forced to withdraw as their home country had just been invaded by Germany.
k9w4 TIL 400 million years ago, before trees took over, Earth was covered in 24-foot mushrooms called prototaxites.
71lP TIL Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, been jailed 40 times and survived four death sentences. He said that he felt at home in Africa as “food was scarce there too and everyone was also barefoot.
4Xobb TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1900s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.