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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: A kid who nearly faked his way through high school, yet another person nearly crushed by the American healthcare system and the expanded dad rock canon.

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, May 04

THE BAD OLD DAYS WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK You Can Fake Your Way Back Into High School, 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: A kid who nearly faked his way through high school, yet another person nearly crushed by the American healthcare system and the expanded dad rock canon. NOBODY'S 'PERFECT' Jamie Lee Curtis, On The Eve Of A Flop, Searches For Her True Self thestacks.deadspin.com "Shrug it off when you hear the rumor you're a dyke. Go to a 'hetero party.' Wear a 50s dress. Slow dance. Let the guys light your cigarettes." STREET SMARTS!!! The Most Ridiculous Guy From John Mulaney's Latest Stand-Up Special Is 100% Real And 100% Weird digg.com Meet Detective J.J. Bittenbinder. He's the subject of an extended bit in Mulaney's new Netflix special and after listening to him for five minutes, you're going to be scared of pretty much every human interaction. BOXES WE DIGG | SPONSORED How To Find Cool Stuff Without Actually Having To Look bespokepost.com Bespoke Post is a subscription club for guys who give a damn. Their monthly boxes introduce you to stuff you've never heard of and didn't even know you wanted: gear, cooking tools, grooming essentials, and more. Each is packed with $70+ worth of goods (and often much more). The best part, each box is $45. Free to join, skip any box, cancel anytime. THX 0504 THE FORCE IS SICK AS FUCK WITH THIS ONE WATCH: VR Doesn't Get Cooler Than This 'Guitar Hero'-Like Game Played With Light Sabers digg.com "Beat Saber" is a virtual reality rhythm game where your controllers act as light sabers used to slice through oncoming beats. This dude took it a step further and taped his controllers together for some Darth Maul rhythm action. MAY THE FOURTH... YOU KNOW The Best Way To Watch All Of 'Star Wars' digg.com The Star Wars canon just got bigger. So, what's the best way to go through all the canonical movies, TV shows and comic books? Let us do you a fan service by giving you our recommendation. A CAPE FOR EVERY OCCASION WATCH: Take A Tour Of The Millennium Falcon With Childish Gambino — Sorry, With Lando Calrissian digg.com Let Earn Marks — wait, dang it — okay, let Donald Glover show you around the super-pristine Millennium Falcon that Lando will inevitably lose to Han in "Solo: A Star Wars Story." UNFOODGETTABLE THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES Forgetting The Madeleine longreads.com A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature's most famous confection. BATS ARE BUDDIES To Find Clean Water, Follow The Bats undark.org Desert life depends on reliable access to water. Observing sensitive bat species could be a viable way to locate and monitor usable sources. A PLATE OF WOKENESS This, Apparently, Is The Most Ethical Meal In The World vice.com Just how easy is it to eat food that won't ruin the world? VIDEO OF THE DAY IT'S A SHARK EAT SHARK WORLD Fisherman Starts To Reel In A Shark, Another Shark Comes Along And Massacres His Catch digg.com And then its disembodied head continues to wriggle on the line. DIGG PICKS 4 Travel Bags To Upgrade Your Next Trip digg.com They're like getting bumped to Business Class when you only paid for Economy. IN THE NEWS Hawaii's Famed Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava And Forcing Evacuations Amid Sex-Abuse Scandal, Swedish Academy Won't Award Nobel In Literature This Year New York City Just Announced It Will Open Safe Injection Sites For Illegal Drug Users Twitter Urges All 330 Million Users To Change Passwords After Bug Exposes Them Scott Pruitt's Press Team Allegedly Tried To Shop Negative Stories On Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Do. Or do not. It's Friday, so it's a little late to just try. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Digg Editions Morning · Thu, May 03

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KILL YOUR DARLINGS NO RESURRECTIONS THIS TIME How To Make Your Own Version Of That Sad 'Avengers' Dust Meme digg.com Ashes to ashes, jokes to jokes. CUT TO THE FEELING Why Are The Scissors So Big? tedium.co The evolution of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, as seen through the sharp blades of a huge pair of ceremonial scissors. Did a bridge just open nearby? WHY EVERY CITY LOOKS THE SAME The Brand Builder newrepublic.com Bjarke Ingels's blandly ubiquitous urbanism has made him a global tastemaker. VACUUMS WE DIGG | SPONSORED It's A Bissell Vacuum For Your Dog woot.com Started as a crowdfunding project, Bissell's portable grooming system makes bathing your dog as easy as vacuuming your dog. Which doesn't sound that easy, but trust us, it is. HUMAN AFTER ALL? CHECK BACK HERE IN SIX MONTHS Check Out This Incredible Portrait Made Entirely With HTML And CSS Before It Inevitably Breaks digg.com It's been awhile since the last pure Cool Internet Thing. But this week, Andy Baio managed to surface the brilliant work of UI engineer Diana Smith, who has created three incredible works of art with nothing but lines of code. PERSON-AI-LITIES How To Write Personalities For The AI Around Us theparisreview.org The truth is that whether creators intentionally design one or not, the AI has one — even if that personality is not having much of a personality. WE KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF OURSELVES Bots Aren't The Enemy In The Information War — We Are wired.com Bots don't care what they share, but our very humanness — craving that which shocks and disgusts the most — may be our undoing online. VIDEO OF THE DAY EXPLOSIVE FLAVOR Guy Learns The Hard Way That There's A Reason People Don't Open Wine Bottles With Blow Torches digg.com Seriously, what did this man think was going to happen here? WITH WOOT! | SPONSORED How Woot! Is Keeping It Weird digg.com Forget saving the world or changing your life — Woot! just wants to sell you some stuff and have fun doing it. Turns out, the weirdest thing a site can do is be honest. IN THE NEWS Giuliani Says Trump Repaid Cohen For Stormy Daniels Hush Money Another Southwest Flight Flight Had To Make An Unplanned Landing Because Of A Broken Window White Supremacist Is Guilty In Charlottesville Parking Garage Beating Of Black Man Cambridge Analytica Just Shut Down All Its US Offices Facebook Fires Engineer Accused Of Using Access To Stalk Women Today is Thursday. The week is almost dusted. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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