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

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X8DE TIL that in Star Wars legends, Jar Jar Binks was given a father, named George R Binks, who was so ashamed of his son that he attempted suicide. In order to talk him down, his wife told him to think of his son. He then pulled the trigger
504B TIL With a permanent population of less than one million people, Qatar hires migrant workers to fill their empty stadiums in the Qatar Stars League, paying them one dollar an hour to “sit in the stadiums and pretend to have fun”.
pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.
W1xA TIL the legend of the chupacabra only dates back to 1995
dDm5B TIL George Harrison released a critically panned electronic album years before The Beatles broke up