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ALL ONE STRANGE DREAM WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Online Mattress Marketing Is A Hellscape, 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: The uncomfortable truth of mattress reviews, the best band from every state and the secret of eyedroppers. FRIEND OF A FRIEND? A Catfishing With A Happy Ending theatlantic.com Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet — and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen. 'PROGRESS IN MOTION!' Here Are The Worst Videos From Cities Begging Amazon For Its New Headquarters digg.com Ugh, stop it cities, you're embarrassing us. BOOKS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Reads That Will Get Your Book Club Talking readitforward.com Wine? Check. Cheese? Check. A book that everyone will enjoy talking about? Oof. That's where Read It Forward comes in. They provide rock-solid book suggestions that will get your book club excited. Read on for 14 titles they love right now. ON A MISSION WE ALL MISS WEB 1.0 The Man Who Traveled Back In Time To Save The Internet thrillist.com One legendary hoax captivated fans of the supernatural and the paranormal like few others. November 2, 2000 saw the first online post by the individual who would come to be known as "John Titor." Titor claimed to be a man from the future, sent to the past to retrieve... a portable computer. GREENLAND ENVY Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them? nytimes.com The country lost most of its trees long ago. Despite years of replanting, it isn't making much progress. THE FRENCH REJECTION Tony Fadell, The Co-Inventor Of The iPod, Gets Back At Silicon Valley wired.com The more I learn about him, the more I begin to suspect that Silicon Valley's favorite son secretly hates the Valley. To hear Fadell tell it, he certainly has reason to. INSIDE OUT The Photographers Challenging How We Think About Prison huckmagazine.com The US prison system is an overcrowded wasteland of wayward lives. But a handful of photographers, armed with exceptional access, are determined to humanise people shunned by society. VIDEO OF THE DAY LET'S MAKE THIS INTO A FEATURE FILM This Short Made By Disney's Animation Studio Interns Is Absolutely Wonderful digg.com It's also the first time a work created by Walt Disney Animation Studios interns has been released to the public. IN THE NEWS Senate Passes $4 Trillion Budget Bill, Paving Way For Tax Reform Effort Lupita Nyong'o Says Weinstein Made Repeated Moves On Her While She Was A Student —  Here's The Full List Of Allegations Pollution Linked To 1/6th Of Deaths Worldwide In 2015 What To Know About The Massive, Preventable Hepatitis A Outbreak In Southern California WATCH: Here's The World's First Aerial 360-Degree Video Of North Korea's Secretive Capital SUITS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Stop Wearing That Off-The-Rack Bullsh*t indochino.com Indochino lets you buy an investment-quality, custom-tailored suits for a fraction of the cost. Shop online today and save up to $400 on your order. We've traveled back in time to tell you that you're going to have a great weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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