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TIL CIA did collect Soviet jokes.

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D1pVV TIL- In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history.
m1d9y TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.
DQLNP TIL Bob Dylan has spent nearly nine days of his life singing one particular song. "Like A Rolling Stone" is 6 minutes long and he's played it live 2,075 times
Me0rA TIL that of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken today, it has been estimated that a staggering 90% of them will be extinct within the next 30 years.
8aneX TIL that the term “teenager” originated around 1944 primarily for marketing purposes.