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Here's what went viral today: Friday

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Apr 22nd 2016, 9:00 PM 6,145 Views 4 Comments

EVERY EVENING AT 9pm, DailyEdge.ie brings you your essential roundup of what you missed on your screens today.

The next great literature trilogy:

This eight-year-old is going places Source: Imgur

People were reading:

How one US President takes over from another.

This Rolling Stone cover story from 1983 on Prince.

All about the images that won the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.

People were watching:

“I’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake”:
https://vine.co/v/iTtbVUMI7Hx

Sliding in smoothly like:
https://vine.co/v/hIM1dJ6wz3W

People were retweeting:

This juxtaposition:

Hanging out of a cop car pissed in the US will prob get you shot. In Dingle, it gets you directions to the chipper. pic.twitter.com/1lZneUTbxa
— Peter Flanagan (@peterflanagan) April 21, 2016

Source: Peter Flanagan/Twitter

This slight correction:

Great corrections of our time. If you're going to be wrong, you might as well be really really wrong pic.twitter.com/mYyr12s93F
— David Ljunggren (@reutersLjungg) April 22, 2016

Source: David Ljunggren/Twitter

Pharrell’s Prince tribute was just great:

There will be many kings, queens, and princesses, but there will never be another Prince. pic.twitter.com/ofpli2nTVF
— Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) April 22, 2016

Source: Pharrell Williams/Twitter

And finally, everyone was loving this little girl’s attempt to stop the tears:

nocry Source: Imgur

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Here's what went viral today: Friday