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The Best Time The US Military Detonated A Nuke Underwater And Other Facts

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Best Time The US Military Detonated A Nuke Underwater 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: That one time the US blew up an atomic bomb in the water for funsies, Japan's cuteness obsession and video evidence of a bad water slide. WHAT'S GOING ON Watch Donald Trump's Long, Angry, Policy-Free RNC Speech The Highlights And Lowlights From The Republican Convention NBA To Move All-Star Game Over North Carolina Bathroom Law Hunt For MH370 Likely To End Soon The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients' Privacy Is Breached SMILES WE DIGG | SPONSORED Invisible Aligners Because Braces Suck smiledirectclub.com If you've ever thought about a better smile but were turned off by the cost and inconvenience of orthodontist visits, SmileDirectClub's got you. They manufacture and ship invisible aligners directly to your door, straightening and whitening teeth remotely, passing the savings on to you. ON AND OFF THE GRID ALL THAT POWER The Primary Power Source In Every Zip Code, Mapped metricmaps.org Coal and natural gas are still dominant, but large swaths of the country are already primarily powered by hydroelectric, solar and wind power. THE BEAT GOES ON The Man Who Spent 30 Years In The Rainforest Preserving The Music Of The Bayaka motherboard.vice.com In 2005, an anthropology graduate from Oxford University made an astonishing, accidental discovery: over 1,000 hours worth of sound recordings of the Bayaka — a hunter-gatherer community in the rainforests of the Central African Republic. SNAPPING INTO FOCUS Analyzing 67 Years Of Lego Sets blog.modeanalytics.com Lego has changed a lot over the decades — but how, exactly? According to a data analysis of 67 years worth of Lego sets, they've gotten a lot more colorful, a fair bit bigger and more. LIBERIA AND MYANMAR, TOO WATCH: America Should Really Switch To The Metric System digg.com We're gonna go ahead and say it: the metric system makes good sense and global measurement standards are a useful thing. BEAT THE HEAT WE ALL SCREAM 'TOO MUCH!' Extreme Ice Cream cooksscience.com A week at the Penn State Ice Cream Short Course, the oldest university-run ice cream workshop in the US. BE COOL, MAN Air Conditioning Is A Human Right time.com Texas, like other states, does not air condition its prisons — and by doing so, it kills people. BEFORE YOU GO THE DEFINITION OF 'SEA OF HUMANITY' Tens Of Thousands Of Festival-Goers Shuffling Left To Right In Sync Is Madness digg.com Thank god the entire audience at the Netherlands' Defqon.1 festival didn't try to "Reverse/Reverse" at the same time. If you need us, we'll be stocking up on ice cream and popsicles for the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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