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TIL Alabama’s constitution is the world’s longest in-use constitution, with 892 amendments. Most deal with local county-level matters, as state power is heavily centralized, and cover things like a single county’s school taxes, court fees, or bingo games. Also, Amendment 693 is inexplicably missing.

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