THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • A restaurant in Mexico City was busted for selling tacos filled with tarantulas.
  • The South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers after they refused to accept offers of 10% of what the farms were worth.
  • Ben Affleck and his girlfriend Lindsay Shookus have split after a year of dating.
  • A survey says one in seven Americans are kept up at night by politics. Seems kinda low.
  • A study says people with strong friendships live 7.5 years longer by average.
  • The Eagles Greatest Hits album has just dethroned Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best-selling album of all time.
  • A bill in California would allow restaurants to serve only water or milk with kids' meals.
  • Janet Jackson has dropped her first new music in three years.
  • A high school football game in Nevada was delayed when the sprinklers accidentally came on.
  • Stevie Wonder is suggesting that global warming played a part in the cancer that took the life of his friend, Aretha Franklin.
  • Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette plays with $100 sewn into his pads, saying it's for "100 yards a game, 100 percent real." Really.
  • The Trans Siberian Orchestra is going on their 20th annual tour this fall, starting November 14th in Green Bay and swinging through 65 cities before the end of the year.
  • Pepsi has bought SodaStream for $3.2 billion.
  • Best Buy just purchased a company that provides emergency response services.
  • Kevin Spacey's latest film, "Billionaire Boys Club," has earned the lowest box office opening of the year, making just $618 from 10 screens in its first two days in theaters.

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