5 Fascinating Things We Learned From Reddit This Week

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Christine Erickson
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5 Fascinating Things We Learned From Reddit This Week

Reddit users have quite a sense of humor. We often find a fact or two underneath a joke, but on Reddit, humorous moments often prove to reveal interesting new knowledge.

This week, Reddit users, using Jackie Chan references, entertained the idea of coconut water functioning as an emergency IV fluid. Meanwhile, the fact that a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's restaurant led to a more straightforward discussion about the name's popularity -- and whether his parents were traditional or just mean.

In addition, we learned about Bill Gates's mug shot cameo, the lifespan of linguistics and the anatomy of a URL.

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