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TIL there is a real, scientific explanation for being too stupid to know you’re stupid

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BwYD 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.
pYR4Z TIL that Vermont not only wasn’t one of the original 13 colonies, but that it was its own country for a few years.
ADeYa TIL Saskatchewan was a hotbed of LSD research in the 1950s with a 50% success rate in treating alcoholism and and architect using LSD used the infamous hospitals to make future institutions more comfortable for the mentally ill.
OZA1 TIL that one actor has played both Luke and Leia Skywalker, Aidan Barton. He is the son of editor Roger Barton and was Baby Luke and Leia in Episode III.
WknJY TIL the famous Dakota apartment building in NYC got its name because when it was built in 1880 that area of the city was so empty they compared it to the remote and sparsely populated Dakota Territory in the midwest.