› added 12 years ago

341

TIL America has the highest teen pregnancy rates of any nation the developed world. Within America, Mississippi has the highest rates. Every single county in Mississippi has a teen birth rate higher than the national average.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

JmE1 TIL - ‘Petrichor’ is the word for 'the smell of rain.’ Petrichor is caused by the oil exuded by plants during dry times to slow seed growth being washed into the air by the rain.
Me8gV TIL that an alternative name for the giraffe is "cameleopard", which comes from the Greek "kamēlopárdalis".
mGjE TIL that you can still differentiate between East/West Germany from space, because the different types of streetlamps used give off different shades of light
1jV7 TIL A report found that, for every $1 invested in the US National Park Service, the American public receives $4 in economic value.
Xejr TIL that members of congress receive access to classified intelligence information without going through a background check – and many of them wouldn’t pass it if they did.