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TIL that Iran's government subsides gender reassignment surgery and considers sex change surgery to be acceptable

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rRVAe TIL it's not uncommon for women to experience "chemical pregnancy" in which your body goes through the motions of being pregnant when in fact there's no embryo.
woMM1 TIL Only One Person Has Been Kicked Out of The College of Cardinals, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne in 1791
VMyxG TIL Grafting tomato shoots onto tobacco roots in 2003, Rob Baur claimed to be the first to create tomacco, the addictive tomato tobacco hybrid conceived by the Simpsons in 1999. While the leaves had nicotine, the tomatoes did not.
oRpj7 TIL in 1971, an activist group wanted to break into an FBI office to steal draft records. They knew they couldn't pick the lock, so they left a note on the door that said, "Please don't lock this door tonight." It worked.
W7dVX TIL an Australian couple bought their neighbors home with the intention of fixing it up and sell for a profit for their retirement. However they couldn't because the paperwork drafted over a century ago, when the lots were first registered, states that their new house is built on a different lot.