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TIL although being gay is illegal in Iran, being transgender is fully accepted. Although once you change gender you must then only date the opposite gender.

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aw9EA TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.
4pRN TIL In 2009, Sophie–an Australian cattle dog–fell overboard in rough waters off of the Australian coast, swam five miles to an uninhabited island, and survived for four months hunting feral goats before being rescued.
0wOj TIL - The Irish population in the United States is roughly six times the modern population of Ireland.
Me597 TIL there's a species of freshwater seal and they exist only around one lake in Russia.
v1Nj7 TIL There is a demon personification for each of the 7 deadly sins and that Satan and Lucifer are seperate