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

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rN7Kx TIL that in 1999 Queen's drummer Roger Taylor became just the second living, non-royal to appear on a British stamp when he was pictured in the background of a Freddie Mercury stamp
Y7BEG TIL John Cage composed Imaginary Landscapes No. 4 which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random
KY9R9 TIL Whiplash director Damien Chazelle was hospitalized after a serious car accident in the third week of shooting, but returned to set the next day to finish the film on time, mirroring Miles Teller's character's car crash in the film
Lk0XV TIL that A Charlie Brown Christmas was widely predicted to be a failure, and the animation was completed in only four months.
wolKo TIL that the olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries. It is a tradition that has taken place at every game since.