THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Bill Murray played bartender over the weekend. Not in a movie, but at his son Homer's new establishment, 21 Greenpoint Bar in Brooklyn, during their grand opening.
  • An Austrian woman is suing her parents for posting embarrassing photos of her as a child on Facebook.
  • In Venezuela, hyperinflation has driven the price of eggs to $150 a dozen.
  • Ford and Jose Cuervo are reportedly teaming up to make car parts out of the agave plant.
  • The Chicago White Sox have set a world's record for the most dogs at a sporting event at 1,122.
  • Playboy claims that their newsstand sales have increased by 28.4% in the six months since the magazine dropped nude pictures.
  • 14.4 million people tuned in for the "America's Got Talent" finale, the biggest audience in 6 years.
  • The deaths of race car driver Robby Gordon's father and stepmother are being investigated as a possible murder-suicide.
  • A Pennsylvania man is being accused of taking a steel drum filled with $3,000 worth of pennies from Pyne Freight Lines, where he worked as a mechanic. That would be around 300,000 pennies.
  • One of the treats you can enjoy at Kansas City Chiefs home games this season: Chocolate Bacon Blitz Pizza.
  • Donald Trump's childhood home in Queens is going up for auction next month.
  • California has banned the breeding of killer whales in captivity.
  • Sharon Stone says that she died briefly during that battle with a brain hemorrhage 15 years ago. Seeing a white light, friends who had died, the works.
  • A lightning bolt that occurred four years ago in France has been officially declared the world's longest lightning bolt ever -- nearly 200 miles long, lasting over 7 seconds.

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