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TIL: 34 States (+ DC) with No-Excuse Absentee Voting

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R7Oy6 TIL in 2018 a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food.
Q8jp TIL that China has an obsession with cloning Western cities. They cloned Paris and it’s a ghost town.
vP5p7 TIL that during his tenure as Senate majority leader, future US President Lyndon B. Johnson instructed his staff to dilute his scotch and soda to a greater extent than that of his guests. This was done in order to maintain a clear and focused state of mind.
dDegr TIL in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's family was gifted a raccoon for Thanksgiving. They raised it as a pet in the White House, complete with a collar inscribed "White House Raccoon." After their tenure, the raccoon was moved to live in a zoo.
eKeb TIL the “Today I Learned” subreddit is regularly exploited by corporate markers to push their agendas