Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

This bildungsroman chronicles the effect of a mutated gene that spans three generations of a Greek family. Narrator and protagonist Cal Stephanides is a Grecian intersex man with 6-alpha-reductase deficiency, causing him to have feminine traits. The novel follows Stephanides’ family from their migration to the U.S. in 1922 to their societal assimilation, eventually culminating in an exploration of Cal’s own experiences as a person with a modified gender identity.

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The More You Know

Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree, the Dogwood.
The Crown Jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on Earth.

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