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TIL that despite being a Muslim theocracy, Iran is the country with the second-most sexual reassignment surgeries every year, with only Thailand ahead of it. This is due to the government’s position that transitioning can “correct” homosexuality by making one partner the opposite gender.

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QK0L TIL that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, buys more than 50 percent of its prescription drugs. And it buys them at prices designed to subsidize the rest of the industrial world, where the same drugs cost much less
GQP5 TIL the song ‘Jimmy Crack Corn’ is about a slave killing his master through deliberate negligence.
9wvYB TIL in 1998 a man in Hokkaido built a hut and committed suicide by starving himself to death. He kept a detailed diary, writing about his experience up until his death
Lk5ep TIL that, Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, was chemically castrated by the British Government for being a homosexual; following which he took his own life in 1954. He officially remained a criminal until 2013.
vRyB TIL rats are capable of laughing.