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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 why you're seeing cauliflower everywhere, how the medical community got everything wrong with obesity, and what's in the happiest meal on Earth.

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TAKING FLIGHT WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Cauliflower Is The Hot New Vegetable Now, 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 why you're seeing cauliflower everywhere, how the medical community got everything wrong with obesity, and what's in the happiest meal on Earth. FAST TIMES ON OMELEK ISLAND Inside The Eight Desperate Weeks That Saved SpaceX From Ruin arstechnica.com The company's meteoric rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle. STILL CAN'T BUY CHARACTER Men Are Spending $200K And Enduring The Worst Pain Imaginable To Grow Three Inches melmagazine.com It's called 'stature lengthening,' and it aims to help short kings tower over all their insecurities. WE WANT SO MUCH MORE OF THIS WATCH: This Anime Trailer For 'Star Wars: A New Hope' Is Honestly The Best Thing We've Seen In Months digg.com This is just one incredibly talented guy doing the animation all by himself so we can't demand the full movie. But... can we have the full movie? DIGG PICKS How To Get The Newest iPhone For $0/Month sprint.com The iPhone Xs and Xs Max are now available to order, and with an eligible trade, you can get the iPhone Xs 64GB for $0 down and $0 a month (and the Max for just $5/month.) This promo is only good through Monday, so get it now if you want it. WHO NEEDS THIS? BLAME GAME Football, My Dad's Dementia, and Me gq.com Doctors said we could blame my father's football career for his vanishing memory. So Dad and I decided to take a road trip down south to revisit the schools that made him. ABOUT TIME Is It Time To Get Rid Of Time? nautil.us We don't see, hear, smell, touch or taste time. And yet we somehow measure it. TIME IS MONEY The Tech Guru Who Spent $250,000 Trying To Live Forever theguardian.com Silicon Valley millionaire Serge Faguet hopes to "live for millions of years and explore other planets" and thinks pills, injections and implants will turn him into a superhuman. Could they? VIDEO OF THE DAY PARTY FOUL Burning Man Attendees Fail To 'Leave No Trace,' Leave Half A Dang 747 In The Desert digg.com The people responsible for leaving the stranded plane are reportedly "working with the Bureau of Land Management" to move it. Great job, everyone. IN THE NEWS Is Netflix's Weird New Series 'Maniac' Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Are Saying Christine Blasey Ford Opens Negotiations On Kavanaugh Testimony Next Week Facebook Is Reviewing Its Policy On White Nationalism After Motherboard Investigation, Civil Rights Backlash 'Treating Protest As Terrorism': US Plans Crackdown On Keystone XL Activists Delta Airlines Staffer Calls Police After Black Customer Asks To Talk To A Manager DIGG PICKS This Headlamp Is So Good You'll Forget You're Wearing It kickstarter.com Biolite took an outdated piece of tech, the headlamp, and turned it into a wearable you actually want to wear. It's bright as hell, thin, rechargeable and fits so well you'll forget it's there. Pre-order now on Kickstarter and it will arrive in time for the holidays. Friday — brought to you by the passage of time. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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