What did the ocean say?
What did the ocean say to the beach?
Nothing. It just waved.
Who told it first?
Origin not traced yet
Unknown
Told everywhere in slightly different wordings. We have not found its earliest printed source yet, so we cannot say who told it first - and we do not claim nobody did.
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