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

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kJwDW TIL that after his presidency, George Washington opened a whisky distillery
kO6og TIL in the 1800’s thousands of pigs roamed the streets of NYC, providing the only source of sanitation-eating trash/waste. Children were attacked, pigs held up traffic,carriages fell over. Pigs eventually outnumbered humans-leading to disease and political unrest between upper/lower classes.
lQba TIL Baboons will kidnap feral dog puppies and raise them so that they will protect the baboon troop when they grow up.
8ebBb TIL Gene Hackman lied about his age to join the Marines at 16.
Bgr6r TIL that bees die a very gruesome death when they sting you. "As the honeybee tries to pull out the stinger, it ruptures its lower abdomen, leaving the stinger embedded, pulling out instead a string of digestive material, muscles, glands and a venom sac."