With 30 million unique visitors and more than to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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Just how big are whales? Here’s a handy picture to help understand their scale. Does that mean their sperm’s giant, too? Not really, according to r/askscience. But a fruit flies’ sperm is 2.5 inches long, making it the world gamete champion. (r/askscience)
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Reddit’s comment king andrewsmith1986 does a radio interview. (r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Just in time for the Super Bowl: a guide to understanding the big game, from American redditors to Brits. (r/AskReddit)
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Redditors construct sentences that are “100% confident has never been said in the history of language.” Winners include: “I understood the Aardvark’s abominable request, but I did not have the requisite amount of trombones to steadfastly commit to that form of murder;” “My favorite part of the movie definitely had to be Jar Jar Binks;” and “There’s no difference between an orange, therefore motorcycles have no doors when someone is looking.” (r/AskReddit)
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It’s not everyday a writer for one of the best shows in television history sits down and has a chat with you. Unfortunately, The Wire‘s George Pelecanos has already finished his AMA. Still, the whole thing is worth a read. Here’s his favorite memory working on the show, for example. (r/IAmA)
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Redditor HEADSHOT asks: Whatever ever happened to the show Battlebots? He posts an image of two of the robot fighters engaged in combat. Big surprise, both of the robots’ creators are redditors and respond in the thread. One moves on to an AMA. (r/pics)