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TIL any Texan who will be out of their county (not country) on voting day can get an absentee ballot.

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69WgW TIL about John Smeaton, a former baggage handler at Glasgow Airport. He helped thwart the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack by kicking one of the attackers in the groin. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his actions.
W76m4 TIL South America is the only inhabited continent in the world without monarchies. All South American countries are presidential republics except Suriname (a parliamentary republic) and French Guiana (a French overseas department).
neymP TIL: In 2013, a school shooter wore a "KILLER" shirt to sentencing, flipped off the victims families, and said he masturbates to their deaths (video)
woDPM TIL that the iconic scene in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King where King Theoden rode down the line of Rohirrim striking their spears with his sword was improvised by Bernard Hill. He pitched the idea to Peter Jackson and had to learn to ride a horse authentically to do the scene correctly.
R5Zr4 TIL that when the Luftwaffe were struggling against the Royal Air Force in WW2, Reichsmarschall Göring asked young flying ace Adolf Galland what was needed to defeat the British pilots. Galland said, "a squadron of Spitfires."