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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: The lucrative world of Kickstarter ripoffs, an insanely popular $100 lightbulb and the word that ruins all apologies.

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DIRT BAGS WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Kickstarter Ripoffs Are Extremely Lucrative, 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 lucrative world of Kickstarter ripoffs, an insanely popular $100 lightbulb and the word that ruins all apologies. A TRASHY CRUISE Sailing Through Garbage Bag Ocean motherboard.vice.com "I sailed from LA to Honolulu with Danish nonprofit Plastic Change to finish a global survey on ocean plastic. Short answer: The Pacific plastic problem is probably worse than you thought." FROM THE DIGG STORE Our 5 Favorite Gadgets Of 2017 (So Far) digg.com Sure, we're only a month in. But that doesn't mean we haven't discovered some very dope stuff. ALL THINGS BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (OF FAVOR) Inside The Startup Behind Silicon Valley's Favorite $100 Light Bulb buzzfeed.com Ketra has built a state of the art LED and a state of the art way to control it. But to sell their wares to the world's biggest tech companies, it first had to build a state of the art problem. A SMELLY BLOBBY PRIMORDIAL GOO What Was Our Universe Like Before The Big Bang? gizmodo.com The many educated speculations scientists have made about the origins of our universe. CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A DOGE Meet The New Breeds Of The Westminster Dog Show nytimes.com The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show has added three new breeds to its annual event, which for the first time will also include a program featuring cats. TROLL CALL EGG-OMANIACAL New Trends In Getting Mad Online theoutline.com Fake sons, safe spaces and making yourself sick. PUTTING PEPE TO BED Reddit Says Goodnight To 'Alt-Right' Community gizmodo.com On Wednesday Reddit banned r/altright, the primary community on the site for the so-called "alt-right." And for a variety of reasons, that's about all we know. VIDEO OF THE DAY THE MOOSE IS LOOSE Good Guy Ice Skaters Save A Poor Moose Who Got Trapped In A Frozen Lake digg.com A beautiful reminder that there are a lot of good people in the world. IN THE NEWS Obama's Final Jobs Report: Payrolls Increase 227,000, Wage Growth Slows Trump Tells Israel Settlements Might Not Help Create Peace, And Other Trump News From Today Kellyanne Conway Cites 'Bowling Green Massacre' That Never Happened To Defend Muslim Ban Republicans Back Off Bill To Sell 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land After Outcry Ah jeez, you did it again. You made it to Friday. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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