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

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b6Lk7 TIL the lyrics to the song "Winter Wonderland" were written by Richard Bernhard Smith while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis treatment. He would die of the disease a year after the song was first recorded.
kO7Pm TIL the line "Turn it up" at the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama wasn't supposed to be in the song -- just instructions to the sound engineer.
vNkB TIL that the Nation of Islam teaches that white people are a race of “Devils” created by a black scientist 6,600 years ago on a Greek island.
Nar1 TIL a physical education teacher in Texas wore the exact same disco-era polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater vest in his school picture for 40 years in a row, until his retirement in 2013.
QJ8Gp TIL portobello mushrooms are just grown-up versions of the common and smaller white/brown mushrooms