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TIL About the strangest named places ive ever seen!

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7vnL TIL one of the world’s oldest recorded jokes dates to 1600 B.C. and is included in a political treatise inscribed on a roll of papyrus: “How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish”.
8ePPL TIL about Clowns without Borders, an international organization that travels to conflict zones around the World to relieve suffering through laughter
E1bPW TIL wigs are still a part of British criminal courts. Judges and barristers, their term for lawyers, have specific standards for wigs that must be worn during criminal case hearings.
woO7Y TIL that listed among the most secure places in the world, alongside Fort Knox and Area 51, is a parking garage in Derby, England.
O9k7 TIL Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is about a man who goes to the future and sees the destruction of the world. When returning to his own time to warn people he is turned into iron and thus mocked. He decides to destroy the world bringing about the end he tried to prevent.