Triple-asterisk leads to unmatched STRONG tag

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>> markdown "***FOO***"
== "<strong>*FOO/**"

(What it's supposed to do is be both bold and italic.)

Generally it seems there should be some sort of protection or assert against making unpaired tags in a single call to markdown, as that allows errors to propagate pretty far in the document (perhaps some way of designing it so that can't happen?)