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TIL teens in rural America are more likely to get pregnant than teens from US cities.

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mx76o TIL Bobby Fischer is believed to have played online chess in the year 2000, well after his last known game in 1982
xV5lk TIL Drunk Americans spend $30.4 billion on spontaneous online purchases.
w4xo TIL that Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after “lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies”.
LQyJm TIL that US deaths accounted for only 1.7% of the total killed in the Vietnam War.
6999Y TIL that during the production of Ghostbusters (1984), the name wasn’t allowed to be used since it was already used by 70’s kids show called “The Ghost Busters.” As a result, there were alternatives names, with one of them being “Ghostsmashers”. Eventually, the studio got the rights to the name.