Brits are frantically Googling what the EU is, hours after voting to leave it

The whole world is reeling after a milestone referendum in Britain to leave the European Union. And although leaders of the campaign to exit Europe are crowing over their victory, it seems many Britons may not even know what they had actually voted for.

But despite the all-out attempts by either side to court voters, Brits were not only mystified by what would happen if they left the EU — many seemed not to even know what the European Union is, washingtonpost.com reports.

This must be very worrying discovery, for Leave EU campaign – they won because many voters didn’t know what the referendum was about and what was at stake for the UK.