Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting ‘23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/


Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?