THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who will appear later this season on "The Walking Dead" as the evil Negan, actually owns a candy store in upstate New York.
• Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson pulled out of the Republican presidential race on Wednesday.
• Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry are off enjoying a Hawaiian holiday together.
• Blake Shelton says he has a new single coming out soon.
• 150 of the Chick-fil-A stores are offering diners a free ice cream cone if they don't bring out their cell phone while eating.
• The Academy had warned Sacha Baron Cohn not to present in his Ali G character. But before his turn to present on stage, he faked food poisoning, went into the bathroom where his wife helped put on his fake beard and then, he double-checked with host Chris Rock if he thought the bit would be funny. And that's how it happened...
• Nicole Scherzinger will play Penny in ABC's remake of "Dirty Dancing."
• There's a newspaper consolidation happening in the San Francisco Bay area, where six dailies will combine to form two new papers.
• One British company is now offering time off to female employees for period pains.
• Tom Brady has signed a contract extension with the New England Patriots that would have him playing to age 42.
• Sweden has opened its first unstaffed grocery store where there are no employees and customers do everything themselves using their smartphones.
• Bugatti's new $2.6 million Chiron is reportedly the fastest car in the world with a top speed of 261 mph.
• Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for the FAA to force airlines to increase the size of passenger seats.
• Wal-Mart is being sued for adding wood pulp products to their Parmesan cheese.
• Warren Buffett says any of his employees who correctly pick the first two rounds of March Madness will win $1 million for life.
• Data from a plastic surgeons association says 40% of breast reduction surgeries are performed on men... while butt implants are the fastest-growing cosmetic procedure.
• A Bay Area tunnel is being renamed the "Robin Williams Tunnel."