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Cooking With Glass: How Pyrex Transformed The Kitchen, Three Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week, The Shady Math Behind Columbia House's '8 CDs For A Penny', VIDEO: Crazy Diver Stares Death In The Face, High-Fives A Great White Shark, The Secrets Of Airport Design, Mexican Wrestling Grapples For Its Future The Daily Digg Thursday, June 11, 2015 A MILLION MEGAPIXELS OF THE PYREX Cooking With Glass: How Pyrex Transformed The Kitchen collectorsweekly.com Almost from its debut in 1915 as the first glassware for cooking, Pyrex has been a ubiquitous part of the American kitchen. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST Three Great Articles Worth Your Time This Week digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: The secret (and not so secret) history of SEAL Team 6, the mysterious case of a dead man on an Australian beach, and the curious proliferation of get-rich-quick schemes in Mormon country. MATH ROCK The Shady Math Behind Columbia House's '8 CDs For A Penny' avclub.com Any music fan eager to bulk up their collection in the '90s knew where to go to grab a ton of music on the cheap: Columbia House. The company's hook was enticing: Get a sizable stack of albums for just a penny, with no money owed up front, and then just buy a few more at regular price over time to fulfill the membership agreement. NEVER GOING IN THE OCEAN AGAIN VIDEO: Crazy Diver Stares Death In The Face, High-Fives A Great White Shark digg.com It's unclear why this diver is not in a cage, but given the size of this shark, he's lucky to still be in one piece. He did get a sweet high-five out of it, though. TO ENSURE A SMOOTH FLIGHT The Secrets Of Airport Design mentalfloss.com Everything from the architecture and lighting to the trinkets on sale in the gift shops is strategic. LIBRE AIN'T FREE Mexican Wrestling Grapples For Its Future bbc.com Despite continuing grumbles from the Mexican wrestlers that the promoters take too much of the cash, there is simply not a great deal of money in the industry. Although lucha libre has a loyal fanbase, its popularity in Mexico is dwarfed by the likes of football, baseball and boxing. Get more stories on Digg.com → A TIGER OUT OF THE WOODS A Royal Bengal tiger is silhouetted as it walks near a lake at the Ranthambhore national park in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. India's latest tiger census conducted in 2014 showed a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild. The country has nearly three-fourths of the world's estimated 3,200 tigers. Credit: AP Photo/ Deepak Sharma Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014