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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Mar 02

A BROKEN SYSTEM WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Bacon Still Causes Cancer, And Other Facts digg.com ​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives. THE HOUSE DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN The Lottery Hackers highline.huffingtonpost.com Jerry Selbee has always had an eye for puzzles and spotting patterns — which is how he discovered a lottery loophole that would eventually make he and his wife millionaires. A GILDED PRISON Why I Quit Google To Work For Myself mtlynch.io Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual employee survey asked me whether I expected to be at Google in five years, it was a no-brainer. But that wasn't what happened. STYLE WE DIGG  | SPONSORED This Clothing Hack Replaces Your Old-School Collar Stays fashionanchor.com The Fashion Anchor is a super-strong adhesive dot that keeps your collar (or tie or dress or pocket square) exactly where you want it. With a formula specifically designed for clothing, the Fashion Anchor is 14x stronger than tape and 100% fabric safe. WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY THE GOOD NEWS FOR 'GET OUT' Could There Be Another Oscars Upset? Here's What Our Data Says digg.com Psst, we've got a treasure trove of internet data here at Digg. We dug through it to see if Oscars predictions missed something about "Moonlight" last year — and what that says about this year HARNESSING THE GROUP MIND Here's How Everyone Else Is Predicting The Big Six Oscars Categories For 2018 digg.com Best Picture, Best Director and all the acting categories were easy to call last year (with one big exception, of course). What do the internet's critics and experts think this year? THEY KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING THEY'RE ALWAYS WATCHING The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed theintercept.com Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world. 'MAN, WHAT DID I DO?' The Trouble With Stopping A Teenage Killer Before They Kill theoutline.com Josh Pillault was 19 when the U.S. government accused him of being a domestic terrorist. YES, JUST LIKE 'NIGHTCRAWLER' Riding Along With A Night Stringer, Chasing Car Crashes For Local News gizmodo.com Adam is what's known in local news as a stringer: the photographers and videographers that cruise the city documenting accidents, crimes, disasters of all sizes in the hopes of selling their footage to media outlets faster than their competitors. VIDEO OF THE DAY THEY'RE TAKING OVER ANY DAY NOW Cats Are Smart As Hell, In Case You Ever Doubted Their Intelligence digg.com "I am a smart, independent cat, and I don't need no humans to rescue my brethren." IN THE NEWS Markets Continue To Slide After Trump's Tariff Announcement Nor'easter Set To Slam East Coast With Severe Winds, Rain And Flooding Earliest Ancient Egyptian Tattoos Found On Mummies FBI Counterintel Is Investigating Ivanka Trump Business Deal In Vancouver FROM THE DIGG STORE A VPN That Won't Slow Down Your Browser store.digg.com This competitively-priced VPN helps you secure P2P file-sharing with blazing fast speeds. With a lifetime subscription, you can unblock and enjoy buffer-less HD streaming. Thank god it's Friday, Nor'easter or not. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Finally, an answer to the one question everyone was asking in response to that one KFC ad from 2013.

Digg Editions Morning · Thu, Mar 01

GIVE TEETH A CHANCE A BONE TO PICK (YOUR TEETH WITH) What Would Happen If You Tried To Bite Through A Chicken Bone? digg.com Finally, an answer to the one question everyone was asking in response to that one KFC ad from 2013. GRANDMA'S COPIED COOKIE RECIPE The Dirty Secret Of 'Secret Family Recipes' atlasobscura.com Surprisingly often, they're copied from mayo jars and famous cookbooks. THE SPICE CHIPS MUST FLOW Herr's 'Red Hot' Chips Are The Companion Your Desk Sandwich Deserves esquire.com In what will hopefully a long and fruitful series of chip reviews, Esquire's Ben Boskovich digs into the magic of Herr's spicy brand of potato snack food. WINE WE DIGG | SPONSORED Drinking Wine Is Easy, Choosing It Should Be Too brightcellars.com Two MIT grads built an algorithm that uses your favorite foods to show you wines you'll like. Answer a short quiz with questions like "what's your favorite type of chocolate?" and they'll suggest the four wines you're most likely to enjoy. Take the quiz to see your top wine matches. MONETIZE ME THESE COLORS RUN IN THE MILLIONS What Is The Perfect Color Worth? nytimes.com Inside the mysterious art — and big business — of color forecasting. IF THEY PRINT IT, WE WILL SPEND IT The Radical Left-Wing Theory That The Government Has Unlimited Money vice.com Everyone knows governments need to tax before they can spend. What Modern Monetary Theory presupposes is, maybe they don't. 'THE BROAD CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY' How Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts Into Dickensian 'Debt Collection Mills' theintercept.com A new ACLU report on modern-day debt imprisonment finds that courts issue tens of thousands of arrest warrants yearly for debtors owing as little as $30. VIDEO OF THE DAY SOME NSFW LANGUAGE Impatient Driver Uses Shoulder To Bypass An Undercover Cop, Gets Some Instant Karma digg.com If you've ever gotten angry at someone who tried to bypass traffic on the side of the road, here's some instant karma action for you. IN THE NEWS Trump Moves Way Left On Gun Control In Strange School Safety Roundtable — Here Are The Highlights A Pennsylvania Church Held A Gun Commitment Ceremony Where People Wore Bullet Crowns Walmart Says It Will Raise Age Restriction To 21 For Gun Purchases, Remove Items Resembling Assault-Style Rifles From Website Vladimir Putin Threatens US Arms Race With New Missiles Announcement China's Censors Ban Winnie The Pooh And The Letter 'N' After Xi's Power Grab FROM THE DIGG STORE Pass All Major CompTIA Exams for Less Than $5 Per Training Course digg.com This 2018 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle breaks everything down in a way that's digestible, effective and affordable. You made it to March. Give yourself a pat on the back. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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