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TIL that Iran has the most transexual operations in the world (after Thailand) and that the government will pay for up to half the cost.

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lo8dr TIL when "Battlefield Earth" won the Razzie Award for Worst Movie of the Decade, screenwriter J.D. Shapiro accepted in person saying: "No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those."
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