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Person
The Joker: next to nothing is known about Batman's greatest enemy … Read more

History
The Native of Formosa: European masquerades as man from Taiwan. Around 1700 a strange man was noticed travelling along a road in Northern Europe … Read more

Film
It's a Joke, Son (1947): directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Kenny Delmar. Tagline: “The Funniest Man of the Year in the Happiest Hit in Years!” Source IMBd

Numbers
7: Do you know why six is afraid of seven?
Because seven eight nine! (seven ate nine!).

Things
Laughing gas: a type of gas which is used as an anaesthetic (= substance which stops pain). Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Song
Get the Joke by Robbie Williams
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Recipe
Blueberry Funny Cake
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Wordplay
“Questions of a zealous nature have become by degrees petty waxen jokes” is a pangram (a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet). This pangram has 59 letters. Source: Word Oddities

Literature
The joke by Milan Kundera
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Date
April 1, 1957: the British news show, Panorama, broadcast a segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. Read more

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