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TIL Multiple states allow voters to legally cast a new ballot if they change their mind.

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8anoG TIL that Lake Superior is so cold that bacteria needed to cause a submerged dead body to float and surface is unable to grow. Due to this, many bodies from shipwrecks, such as the Edmund Fitzgerald, have never been recovered.
D1okD TIL in 1918 the SS Princess Sophia became grounded on Alaska's Vanderbilt Reef. Worsening weather ruled out any chance of a rescue. Two days later she sank with the loss of all 364 people on board. A dog was the only survivor.
NWdQ TIL that in 1902, the French, concerned with the large number of rats in Hanoi, instituted a bounty, which would be proven by showing the rat’s tail. People soon began breeding rats for their tails without killing them, causing a bubonic plague.
DAQr TIL there is man who is officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known.
9wE6 TIL that in California and 3 other US states, “Ladie’s Night” are against the law because they are considered “gender discrimination