"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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