World's oldest recorded joke is about a woman farting
The world's oldest recorded joke, traced back to 1900 BC, is, "something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." The joke is known to be a saying of Sumerians, who lived in modern-day southern Iraq. The world's oldest top 10 jokes list was published by the University of Wolverhampton, UK. 