THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• An engineer measured and found that the Great Pyramid of Giza isn't exactly square. Apparently, the west side of the pyramid is 5.55 inches longer than the east.
• Next time you go to Costco, take your VISA card. As of Monday, they no longer take American Express.
• Selma Blair was rushed to the hospital after being removed from an international flight Monday. The actress was taken by stretcher off of her return flight from Cancun, Mexico, to Los Angeles after allegedly having an outburst on the flight.
• A horse adopted by Jon Stewart and his wife after it was found seemingly abandoned at an auction stable in Pennsylvania has died at their New Jersey farm.
• Daryl Hannah sold her eco-conscious hippie-chic hideaway in the mountains above Malibu in an off-market deal for $3.6 million to an inscrutable blind trust that real-estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak swears is controlled by -- oddly enough -- Hannah's music-legend boyfriend Neil Young.
• Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh announced that his wife is pregnant with the couple's 7th child.
• The new book, "Crisis of Character" comes out next Monday, a less-than-flattering account of one Secret Service agent's time in the Clinton White House.
• Blake Lively is expecting her second child with husband Ryan Reynolds, and says the couple is far from finished making babies.
• A city in southern China went ahead with an annual dog-meat eating festival Tuesday despite heavy criticism and protests from animal rights activists.
• Harley-Davidson announced this week that they plan to introduce quieter electric powered motorcycles within the next five years.
• Kylie Jenner has unveiled two new colors of her Lip Kit lipsticks -- light blue Skylie and dark blue Freedom.
• A lock of David Bowie's hair is expected to get $4,000 at an auction this weekend.
• The 2-year-old boy who was killed by an alligator at the Disney World resort in Orlando was laid to rest Tuesday.