It's Expensive To Be Poor

It's Expensive To Be Poor And Other Facts

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK It's Expensive To Be Poor 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 high costs of poverty, why the spaghetti spoon has a hole and a infuriatingly deceptive optical illusion. WHAT'S HAPPENING 12 Police Officers Shot, 5 Killed By Snipers In Dallas US Payrolls Jumped 287,000 In June, Most In Eight Months MN Governor Says Philando Castile Shooting Wouldn't Have Happened If He Were White Planet Discovered Orbiting Three Suns BOXES WE DIGG | SPONSORED How To Look Cool When It's Hot As Hell bombfell.com Put down the board shorts and step away from the jorts. Bombfell's team of stylists pick clothes based on your style and budget, so you can look great without ever having to step foot into a store. LOUD NOISES BOOM GOES THE, UH, SOMETHING We're Still Not Totally Sure What Happened In The Tunguska Event bbc.com Over 100 years after the most powerful explosion in documented history, researchers are still trying to figure out exactly what happened DEATH METAL The Loudest Sound In The World Would Kill You On The Spot fivethirtyeight.com If a sound is loud enough, it can plow into you like a linebacker and knock you flat on your butt. When the shock wave from a bomb levels a house, that's sound tearing apart bricks and splintering glass. Sound can kill you. HEY, WATCH IT NO TIME FOR COLD OPENS A Brief History Of TV Shows' Opening Credit Sequences theweek.com The opening number of a television show has a big job to do. It has to convey the mood of the show you're about to watch, possibly introduce you to the characters, and set the tone for the next 30 to 60 minutes. But more than anything, it has to hook you. [INDECIPHERABLE] The Art Of The Movie Subtitle thepointmag.com Critics of subtitles have protested that they seem stuck onto films where space wasn't made for them, as if they need to atone for defacing the movie by doing their business as quietly and modestly and unobtrusively as possible. THEY HOLD AMERICA CAPTIVE Pop Culture's Fascination With Captive Women theatlantic.com From drama to comedy, current works of television and cinema are putting a new spin on a very old trope. BEFORE YOU GO MIRROR ЯOЯЯIM FBI Negotiator Offers Tips To Help You Win Your Next Negotiation digg.com Chris Voss explains how a good negotiator can take advantage of the brain reacting subconsciously to what is being said. That's all for now; good luck negotiating a higher salary today! View the Edition at Digg.com »

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