Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.
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Felix Baumgartner could see the curvature of the Earth before he leaped into an almost-record-breaking 13.5 mile skydive yesterday. At r/astronomy, redditors share stunning photos of the adventure and discuss the legendary Joe Kittinger, who still holds the record—a stratospheric 20 miles—from 1960. (r/astronomy)
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Redditors share horror stories of their children doing stupid things. “Also, my kids are stupid,” writes Methofelis at the end of a top-voted comment. It would be funny, if you didn’t fear for their lives. (r/AskReddit)
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Reddit’s historians discuss the “piece of history you feel the public needs to know more about.” The top answer? “The class perspectives of the Founding Fathers, as well as the role of class in the formation of racial ideology during colonial times.” (r/AskHistorians)
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“Why is our brain in our head and not our chest with the rest of our vital organs?” The answer is deceptively simple: because our ancestors billions of years ago moved head first. “This demonstrates the fact that evolution works by selecting available innovations on an underlying body plan instead of working towards some theoretical global optimum,” ren5311 writes. (r/askscience)
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Why do we feel emotion from music? That single question spawns a fascinating discussion in r/askscience. (r/askscience)
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This bug looks like the creation of some mad scientist who took fractal art and primordial goo then jolted it with a few thousand volts of electricity. Then made it sticky. What is it? (r/whatsthisbug)
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“The best jobs I ever had were the ones I could leave behind at quitting time so I could fully recharge,” writes headfullofuselessnes as redditors discuss a Salon article on the value of shorter work weeks. (r/TrueReddit)
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