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You don’t have to be a fan of the NFL to appreciate the work redditor _supernovasky _ put into chronicling the league’s embarrassingly bad replacement referees. (r/bestof)
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I just learned a new science term: “viscous fingering.” (r/askscience)
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“[I’ve] seen the worst that humans can do to each other,” The New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristof writes in his AMA. “But mostly [I’m] inspired by the courage and decency and goodness that so many ordinary people summon in those circumstances.” (r/iama)
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Are people with brain damage cognizant of how they’ve changed? (r/askscience)
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Historical parallels to our imminent oil crisis. (r/askhistorians)
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This story from a redditor who says he saved a girl from kidnapping in Costa Rica is also a lesson in what not to do while traveling in a foreign country. (r/bestof)
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Hear of that movie Looper? Here’s an AMA with the director, Rian Johnson. (r/iama)
Pic of the day: ITAP of an art project I made. (r/itookapicture)
Hottest subreddit: r/borderlands2 (2 days)
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