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TIL according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, unplanned pregnancies cost US taxpayers $2.1B each year, more than half of U.S. pregnancies are unintended, and roughly 1-in-20 American women of reproductive age have an unplanned pregnancy each year.

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KOxYG TIL in 1965, Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL in the Austrian Army (during the 1 year service required by the government) to attend a bodybuilding contest. He spent a week in military prison, but won the contest, propelling the opportunity for larger contests and, ultimately, his ticket to to America
PQYn TIL In the year 2000, Japanese citizens voted that instant noodles are the best national invention of the 20th century.
9wwgB TIL about the Genetic Isopoint - anyone alive at the genetic isopoint (or before) is either the ancestor of everyone alive today or no one alive today. And you can assume today will be a genetic isopoint for sometime in the distant future.
MeRmV TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote Eureka, an obscure book, in 1848 in which he insisted that the universe began in "one instantaneous flash" - more than a century before astronomers hypothesized the Big Bang Theory.
yJ5w TIL Spook Busters is a 1946 comedy film about a group of recent graduates who set up a company to exterminate ghosts in New York