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The Perfect Zingers For 15 Important Historical Moments
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When time travel is invented, we're going to learn a lot about ourselves as a species. We'd imagine there will be those people who try to go back and right history's wrongs, but an underestimated subset will be the folks who use it to add the perfect zinger to those moments. We asked you to show us the bad jokes, and puns that will make time travel worth it. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...
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