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

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OoeVY TIL Vesta Stoudt, the mother of two Navy Sailors wrote a letter to President Roosevelt explaing the way ammunition was packed often didn’t work. She suggested a rippable cloth based tape, leading to the invention of duct tape.
jNJav TIL that, between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as 'enemy aliens'.
kOQg TIL AAA doesn’t care if you sign up for their membership on the side of the road… and that’s usually cheaper than calling a tow truck.
0wOMy TIL that Maya Angelou didn’t celebrate her birthday because of Martin Luther King’s death
QNWed TIL women POWs imprisoned by the Japanese on Sumatra in 1943-44 created an orchestra using only their voices, and managed to perform 3 concerts in captivity. The orchestra ended less than a year later, after more than half of the members died and the other half became too weak to sing.