A lot of Brexit voters don't actually know what the European Union is

Google found that many residents of the U.K. were searching for answers to questions such as 'What is the EU?' just hours before casting their votes.
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More than 17 million Britons voted Thursday to leave the European Union, an international organization to which the U.K. had belonged since the European Economic Community was absorbed by the EU in 1993. Good riddance!

Except, it seems, a solid chunk of the tens of millions of voters who weighed in on the referendum might not actually know what they voted for:

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.