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title: ""The world's oldest surviving joke "is essentially a fart gag", he…"
date: 2017-11-10
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# "The world's oldest surviving joke "is essentially a fart gag", he…

*November 10, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2479730/The-worlds-oldest-jokes-revealed-by-university-research.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2479730/The-worlds-oldest-jokes-revealed-by-university-research.html){target="_blank"}
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\"The world\'s oldest surviving joke \"is essentially a fart gag\", he said.\
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The 3,000-year-old Sumerian proverb, from ancient Babylonia, reads: \"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband\'s lap.\"\
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[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2479730/The-worlds-oldest-jokes-revealed-by-university-research.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2479730/The-worlds-oldest-jokes-revealed-by-university-research.html){target="_blank"}
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