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TIL that Samoa has a long history of acceptance and celebration of transgender females who are integral to their society and known as Fa'afafine.

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PYYrw Short answer: In principle, yes
P1bWL TIL shortly after independence, in the 1950s, Malta elected an Italian nationalist as their prime minister who wanted Malta to be part of Italy, he died two months after being elected without ever being able to make Malta more Italian than it already was.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
OGOZX TIL about Dipendra, the 2nd to last King of Nepal, who spent the entirety of his reign in a coma.
R5a TIL that Ormer Locklear, a WW1 pilot, got out of his plane, diagnosed the problem, and repaired it all while still flying the plane and then did numerous times after that.