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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.

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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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