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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: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.

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A BROKEN SYSTEM WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Bacon Still Causes Cancer, 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: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives. THE HOUSE DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN The Lottery Hackers highline.huffingtonpost.com Jerry Selbee has always had an eye for puzzles and spotting patterns — which is how he discovered a lottery loophole that would eventually make he and his wife millionaires. A GILDED PRISON Why I Quit Google To Work For Myself mtlynch.io Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual employee survey asked me whether I expected to be at Google in five years, it was a no-brainer. But that wasn't what happened. STYLE WE DIGG  | SPONSORED This Clothing Hack Replaces Your Old-School Collar Stays fashionanchor.com The Fashion Anchor is a super-strong adhesive dot that keeps your collar (or tie or dress or pocket square) exactly where you want it. With a formula specifically designed for clothing, the Fashion Anchor is 14x stronger than tape and 100% fabric safe. WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY THE GOOD NEWS FOR 'GET OUT' Could There Be Another Oscars Upset? Here's What Our Data Says digg.com Psst, we've got a treasure trove of internet data here at Digg. We dug through it to see if Oscars predictions missed something about "Moonlight" last year — and what that says about this year HARNESSING THE GROUP MIND Here's How Everyone Else Is Predicting The Big Six Oscars Categories For 2018 digg.com Best Picture, Best Director and all the acting categories were easy to call last year (with one big exception, of course). What do the internet's critics and experts think this year? THEY KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING THEY'RE ALWAYS WATCHING The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed theintercept.com Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world. 'MAN, WHAT DID I DO?' The Trouble With Stopping A Teenage Killer Before They Kill theoutline.com Josh Pillault was 19 when the U.S. government accused him of being a domestic terrorist. YES, JUST LIKE 'NIGHTCRAWLER' Riding Along With A Night Stringer, Chasing Car Crashes For Local News gizmodo.com Adam is what's known in local news as a stringer: the photographers and videographers that cruise the city documenting accidents, crimes, disasters of all sizes in the hopes of selling their footage to media outlets faster than their competitors. VIDEO OF THE DAY THEY'RE TAKING OVER ANY DAY NOW Cats Are Smart As Hell, In Case You Ever Doubted Their Intelligence digg.com "I am a smart, independent cat, and I don't need no humans to rescue my brethren." IN THE NEWS Markets Continue To Slide After Trump's Tariff Announcement Nor'easter Set To Slam East Coast With Severe Winds, Rain And Flooding Earliest Ancient Egyptian Tattoos Found On Mummies FBI Counterintel Is Investigating Ivanka Trump Business Deal In Vancouver FROM THE DIGG STORE A VPN That Won't Slow Down Your Browser store.digg.com This competitively-priced VPN helps you secure P2P file-sharing with blazing fast speeds. With a lifetime subscription, you can unblock and enjoy buffer-less HD streaming. Thank god it's Friday, Nor'easter or not. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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