Friday, April 6, 2018

The Worst Thing Since Sliced Bread

Welcome to What We Learned This Week​, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Toast isn't good, false missile alerts spark real feelings of dread and you can't steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash.
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Sliced Bread Is Not The Best Thing, And Other Facts
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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: Toast isn't good, false missile alerts spark real feelings of dread and you can't steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash.
A SCANDAL ON BAKER ST
The Unsolved Mystery Of Who Owns Sherlock Holmes' Original £130 Million Home
qz.com
221b Baker Street now symbolizes a very modern London trait: the city as a mecca for money stashed away by the elites of corrupt countries.
LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM
How One Man Got Rich Selling Machine Guns In America
bloomberg.com
Frank Goepfert has built a lucrative business dealing in the rarest, deadliest and most valuable of firearms.
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Here's The Real Way To Calculate How Much House You Can Afford
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Better Mortgage Corporation has the only end to end mortgage application to closing process that is 100% online. That means you can get pre-approved in less than three minutes and see a real estimate of how much house you can afford. If only getting on "House Hunters" was this easy.
FOLLOW THE LEADER
WHEN ALT-WEEKLY MEETS CULT
The Rajneeshees Bused 3,000 Homeless To Live In Their Oregon Compound. Our Reporter Was One Of Them
wweek.com
At the time, the goings-on had been especially strange.
A SELF-SORTING COUNTRY
How Your Social Class Affects Where You'll Move
citylab.com
Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized, an economist finds.
CAPTION CAPTAIN
We Found The Best New Yorker Cartoon Captions, And They're All By One 9-Year-Old Girl
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Kids are funny — but this particular kid might very well be a comedy genius.
A MOUNTAIN OF CONFLICT
Patagonia Vs. Donald Trump
gq.com
We all knew the legendary outerwear company Patagonia lived and breathed the adventurous life. We knew they cared about the environment. But it wasn't till Trump came along that we realized they were ready to fight.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THIS IS BRAZEN
Guy Leaves His Mercedes' Dash Cam On During Service Check, Finds Out What Technicians Are Actually Doing
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Daniel Sheikhan filmed what happened to his Mercedes AMG when he dropped it at the dealership for service, and he was... not pleased when he watched the footage. Or with the $700 he paid for a transmission service that never happened.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Threatens China With New $100 Billion Tariff Plan
MMA Fighter Conor McGregor Goes On Rampage At Pre-Fight Media Event, Gets Arrested
EPA Head Scott Pruitt Demoted Or Reassigned Dissenters
Sorry, Winter Weather Is Never Going To End This Year
Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comics Sold In Las Vegas
FROM THE DIGG STORE
This Keyboard Has Typewriter Keys Because That's The Best Part, Right?
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This keyboard combines high-tech mechanical engineering with a retro typewriter design and is available to pre-order now.
Here's to a cult-free weekend.