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TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, many pirates set up social safety net programs such as disability payments for injuries sustained while at sea, as well as life insurance to be paid to a pirate’s family if they died.

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4Xr0J TIL that in the 1930s, the Communist Party of Germany allied with the Nazi's (who they referred to as "working people's comrades"), to overthrow the Social Democratic government under the belief that a Nazi government would collapse and lead to a Communist one gaining power
v1arB TIL Richard Nixon once called in staff to help him open an allergy-pill bottle. It was the childproof type of bottle, with instructions saying “Press down while turning.” The cap had teeth marks on it where Nixon had apparently tried to gnaw it open
OGxO4 TIL: Rachel Wall was the last woman to be hanged in MA in the 1700s. She tricked sailors by screaming for help, when people came to help, her crew would kill them and steal their goods. She was later arrested for trying to rip a girl's tongue out and theft. She requested to be tried as a pirate.
VBNXD TIL that in 1912, a boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing. Eight months later, he was found with another family who claimed that he was their son, Bruce Anderson. The Andersons didn't have the money to fight in court, so they lost custody. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed that the boy wasn’t Bobby.
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