stackyFACTSYou might expect the oldest recorded human name to belong to a mighty warrior or a legendary ruler. Nope. It belongs to 'Kushim,' an ancient Sumerian accountant whose name was inscribed on a clay tablet solely to log a transaction involving barley. The very first immortalized human was just a guy doing his administrative paperwork.
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