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TIL that there IS a Word that Rhymes with Orange!

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oXLW TIL that while Iran punishes homosexuality with the death penantly, they allow transgender people to the extent that the country performs more sex-change surgeries than any other, except Thailand.
grj0L TIL a sculpture made for Queen Elizabeth II's 1977 silver jubilee was originally a rejected transparent acrylic monolith prop for the movie "2001: a Space Odyssey." Artist Arthur Fleischmann repurposed it by carving a crown and rays of light onto one side.
WkDX8 TIL During the Warsaw Uprising, Hungarian troops stationed nearby (under the command of Nazi officers) used many different methods to help the Polish Resistance, including staging mock "partisan raids" in order to distribute arms and equipment, and even went as far to defect to the Resistance.
K0Z9 TIL When AA neurosurgeon Ben Carson was a child, his mother required him to read two library books a week and give her written reports, even though she was barely literate. She would then pretend to carefully review and approve them. This inspired his eventual love of reading and learning.
GYbj7 TIL a robot named hitchBOT successfully hitchhiked across Canada but when he tried to repeat this feat in the US he was beaten to death and dismembered in Philadelphia