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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Annals of mammal sex: Intelligent mammals are not instinctually smart enough to know how to copulate. It’s something they need to learn. Call it the Panda Problem. (/r/askscience)
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After all the celebrities popping in to r/IAmA recently, it’s nice to see something like this: “IAmA portabella/crimini mushroom farmer responsible for about 4.5-5 million pounds of production per year.” (/r/IAmA)
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And here’s another one: A redditor who suffers from prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, answers your questions. “I recognize my own face,” the redditor writes, “but it is very hard to visualize it. Looking in the mirror isn’t anything too special or different.” (/r/IAmA)
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Simon Beck creates snow art pretty much by walking around. He’s now Reddit famous after redditor outflanking shares a gallery of his amazing work on r/pics. (/r/pics)
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Reddit’s Internet detectives catch another karma fraudster. (/r/bestof)
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r/science discusses the first artificial leaf. (/r/science)
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Redditor executivemonkey digs up the “first drama” to ever grace one of Reddit’s comment sections. Unsurprisingly, it happens in the first ever post to allow comments, all the way back in 2005. Even better, one of the commenters returned years later. (/r/SubredditDrama)
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It seems it’s a day of nostalgia: Redditor abendages posts that well-known screengrab of Reddit’s front page from 2007. Has it gotten better or worse? “Look at the comments if you want to see the biggest decline,” redditor joliver321 writes, after another redditor digs up the cached version of the page. (/r/AskReddit)
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments.
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