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From one-liners to corny comedy, this hilarious selection of the best dad jokes will have kids and adults alike laughing. They're so bad, they're good.

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Step into Gunther Toody’s Diner in Colorado Springs and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with a club sandwich so perfectly executed, it might just ruin all other sandwiches for you forever.

Ask a French scholar in the 16th century to see his thesaurus, and he'd gladly give you a copy of his dictionary. In the early 1530s, a French printer named Robert Estienne published Thesaurus Linguae ...

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