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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Did aliens (or the Illuminati?) communicate with this redditor through the movie Signs using ancient hieroglyphs? Wouldn’t they have chosen a better Mel Gibson movie? Indeed, there’s a perfectly logical answer to the supernatural DVD message mystery. (r/askreddit)
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The best part of r/askscience is that you can ask kind of stupid questions and no one makes fun of you. And sometimes they’ll even draw some diagrams for you. (r/askscience)
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Redditor YepYepImaRep lists out 51 indispensable camping tips. Just don’t follow his advice on the river stones as butt-wipers. (r/DepthHub)
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This 2006 study, which found that someone with a female handle receives 25 percent more malicious messages than men, is interesting, but the debate on interpreting the data in r/TrueReddit is much more so. (r/TrueReddit)
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Domains can now be blocked on Reddit site-wide. Be careful what you spam. (r/changelog)
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Michael J. Katsis recently found his art being misappropriated and misattributed across the Internet. So he took his message of “Hey, I made that,” to Reddit. (r/self)
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Here’s a great thread: “What notable pieces of history are usually taught in a one-sided manner?” (r/AskHistorians)
Pic of the day: Venus in the palm of my hand. (r/pics)
Hottest subreddit: r/asianparentstories
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