› added 11 years ago

88

TIL the majority of women seeking an abortion are not teenagers. In fact, 58% are in their 20s, and 6 in 10 already have a child at home.

Read more guttmacher.org

via reddit.com

E1WpX TIL that KFC released a romance novella set in Victorian England called 'Tender Wings of Desire', featuring Colonel Sanders as a 'man of passion' and fierce love interest for the protagonist
grWw4 TiL that the spiral shell of a Nautilus cephalopod isn't full of its body, but a system of air chambers that act like buoyancy chambers on a submarine!
XEbnQ TIL that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi earns EGP 500,000 (currently equal to $31,500) annually, slightly less than the maximum wage for public sector employees - and he donates half of his salary to a public fund for economic and development projects
Abk7 TIL that 62.1% of bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills. Most medical debtors were well educated and middle class; three quarters had health insurance. Unaffordable medical bills and income shortfalls due to illness were common causes.
78rDb TIL that bayonet charges still sometimes occur in modern warfare