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CITY LIVING BOSTON WYD An Absolutely Fascinating Visualization Of Street Orientations In Major Cities digg.com What would happen if every one of a city's streets intersected at exactly one point? It would be a nightmare for rush-hour traffic, sure, but it's a great way to visualize the orientation of a city's streets. ​ ALL OVER THE MAP The Surreal Architecture Porn Of Baku, Azerbaijan thedailybeast.com The Dubai of the 19th century, Baku has a long and rich architectural history thanks to its natural resources. Fortunes, including that of the Nobel's, were made here, and left part of the city with an architectural legacy that most closely resembles Vienna. FIZZY FOLK LEGEND The Bizarre Story Of The Seattle Mystery Vending Machine todayifoundout.com Situated on the corner the John Street and 10th Avenue East in the bustling Capitol Hill neighbourhood, the seemingly ancient machine is well known for dispensing random, sometimes rare, cans of soda — a fact that's made all the more intriguing when you consider that nobody seems to know who stocks the machine or where it came from. WHOA WATCH: Insane Footage Shows Newly-Built Mall In Mexico City Spontaneously Collapse digg.com Luckily the Artz Pedregal mall isn't open to the public yet, or this could have been a lot worse. SIMULATORS WE DIGG Learn To Fly A Drone Online With This Sophisticated DRL Simulator thedroneracingleague.com/simulator/ The DRL SIM is the only simulator that translates online flying into better real-world flying. Hone your piloting skills with a fully customizable drone racing experience to achieve a flight that's right for you. You can even race real DRL drones through real DRL course maps that you've seen the pros fly on ESPN. TAKING OVER WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 'Fortnite' Is The Video Game Version Of Instagram digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: How "Fortnite" achieved insane amounts of success, why getting laid off still feels personal and what is causing the decline of the middle child. TAKING IT FOR A SPIN Inside The World Of Competitive Sign-Spinning munchies.vice.com Once just a low-wage job for teenagers outside of sandwich spots, sign-spinning is now a fleshed-out and fiercely competitive sport. 'THIS IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE' Ashley Madison Has Been Making A Quiet Comeback theoutline.com Surprisingly, the once notorious site has become popular with women looking to cheat. AN EVEN WORSE KIND OF YEAST INFECTION The Strange And Curious Case Of The Deadly Superbug Yeast wired.com This particular pathogen isn't a bacterium. It's a yeast, a new variety of an organism so common that it's used as one of the basic tools of lab science, transformed into an infection so disturbing that one lead researcher called it "more infectious than Ebola." VIDEO OF THE DAY GOING UNDER Water Well Sinks A Bit And Then Just... Disappears digg.com Luckily this was just a well and not, you know, a person, but still, sinkholes are frickin' scary. IN THE NEWS Vaping Pilot Caused Air China Plane To Plunge 6,500m After Smoke Shut Off Air Conditioning The Major Blazar Discovery Is 'Just the Beginning' Of A New Age Of Physics There Is Now Just One Blockbuster Left In The US Second US Service Member Killed In Afghanistan In A Week FROM THE DIGG STORE These AirPod Dupes Are 80% Cheaper Than The Original store.digg.com These AirPod alternatives free up your daily listening for a fraction of the cost. Let's give Friday a hand, it's done so much for us. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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