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TIL CIA did collect Soviet jokes.

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epp5D TIL that there was a brief mulberry tree bubble in the United States, in the hopes of producing silk domestically. Mulberry tree prices rose from $4 per 100 in 1834 to $30 per 100 in 1836, until blights and panic made the bubble burst by 1840.
neOVb TIL that doctors were seven times as likely to join the Nazi Party as other employed men in Germany
epAND TIL that in the UK all animal materials used in pet foods must come from animals passed as fit for human consumption.
8veP TIL a Swedish diplomat jumped on top of a train filled with Jews bound for Auschwitz and handed out Swedish passports down through the doors as German soldiers ordered him down and fired into the air around him. He then demanded the Germans release them and took them to safety.
nJ5W TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard