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TIL that 18 states do not allow the parental rights of rapists to be terminated. This is true even if the rapist is convicted.

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6ZkZ TIL that one of the main hypothesis explaining the massive dislike of clowns is the “uncanny valley effect”. The term depicts a valley of negative emotional response caused by things that look human but “aren’t quite there”
VMpXZ TIL that North Korea's diplomatic mission to the UN has 1,300 unpaid NYC parking tickets going back to the 1990s, owing more than $156,000.
rNE9x TIL that the leader of the Crips, Stanley Williams, lived a double life where during the day, he was an anti-gang youth counselor, and at night acted as the overboss of the Crips, committing violent gang crimes against the Bloods
GAPJG TIL that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first man to walk on the moon instead of Neil Armstrong, but NASA was forced to change their plans because they'd built the Lunar Module so that as the pilot, Aldrin would be seated farther from the door than Armstrong
GAyvJ TIL that Los Pepes, a vigilante group designed to combat Pablo Escobar, was themselves funded by rival drug cartels (notably the Cali Cartel) and had links themselves with law enforcement.