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

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G7xG TIL that Slayer released their album “God Hates Us All” on September 11th, 2001. King’s inspiration wasn’t “anti-christian”, but rather the idea that “One day you’re living your life, and then you’re hit by a car or your dog dies, so you feel like, ‘God really hates me today’.”
xVORg TIL the same team that founded SparkNotes founded OkCupid three years later.
PYMJE TIL that, after the Siege of Leningrad, there were so many rats that four wagons of cats were brought in to fight them. Citizens erected statues to those cats many years later.
1aLgD TIL the Buffalo Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row (1991-94).
KOvE4 TIL: Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer invented a chess variation which randomized the starting positions of the home row pieces to reward creativity over memorization.