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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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dDmYr TIL Whales are colorblind and see the world only in black and white
0ddNM TIL that in 1976, George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of 'General of the Armies of the United States,' the highest rank possible, to ensure that he could never be outranked.
a89oy TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1924. Hoover forced all women to resign by 1929, there were no female officers until 1972.
Ol7Y TIL 2% of women have a 4th color cone and can see about 90 million more colors than the rest of us.
nkxr TIL that Krusty the Clown was originally supposed to be revealed as being Homer Simpson’s secret identity but the writers thought the idea was too complex.