THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Best Buy is selling the Apple Watch at a $100 discount. Some feel that signals that a new model is right around the corner.
• With Gwen Stefani pursuing a solo career and Blake Shelton, No Doubt has replaced Gwen with a male singer, Davey Havok.
• A new report says that 43% of Americans are still renting.
• Florence Henderson says, at age 81, she enjoys multiple "friends with benefits."
• Leonard Nimoy put his thoughts down in a book before he died, which is being released, called "Leonard." In it, he admits he hadn't spoken to William Shatner in five years because Shatner shot video of him and used it in a documentary without his permission.
• A report says that sales of adult diapers could equal those of baby diapers in a decade.
• A survey says that most Americans want to live to 100, but only 42% are making a serious effort to get there.
• The NBA is reportedly close to placing corporate logos on players' jerseys.
• A study says that one in ten Americans dating online are baby Boomers.
• Apple is hiring engineers to coach Siri to be better at sports.
• The NBA has become the first professional sports league to get 1 Billion likes on Facebook.
• In Spain, a man is being fined for not showing up to work... for the past six years. The city he worked for went to honor him for his "loyal and dedicated service" and no one knew who he was.
• The newly-elected president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America is a guy from Billings, Montana, named Peter J. Grass.
• In the movie "Ghostbusters ll," which came out in 1989, the film claimed the world would end on Valentine's Day 2016.
• Nelly Furtado sang the Canadian National Anthem at the NBA All-Star game in Toronto on Sunday... while Ne-Yo sang the U.S. National Anthem.
• Pat Conroy, 70, best-selling Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.