@AncientPortland: A Twitter Joke That's Actually Funny

May 09, 2011 at 11:15 am PDT

I'm aware that joke Twitter accounts are so 2009, but this one is actually quite funny and regularly makes me chuckle—no small feat, I assure you.

@ancientportland tweets amusing "facts" from Portland's "history" from "1851 BC-1800 AD". Here's a few of the better ones:

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Questions are also encouraged:

It's very undergraduate, but in the best kind of way.

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