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

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oakE TIL that US election day is always held on a Tuesday because in 1845 farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Farmers would leave Monday, vote on Tuesday and be back in time for market day, which was on Wednesday.
d8voE TIL That a Single Casino Dominates the Economy of Saipan.
BEpK TILed that there is a geocache on the International Space Station.
mxnaO TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.
NXpeP TIL the US Treasury confirmed that penny press souvenir machines do not violate Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code on mutilation of currency