World’s oldest joke is about female flatulence
In what amounts to a pretty unsurprising find, human cultures…

In what amounts to a pretty unsurprising find, human cultures have been fascinated by gender norms, and more importantly flatulence, since the dawn of civilization. Thus spake Reuters:

The world’s oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

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Source: providencedailydose.com