THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Miss Iceland dropped out of an international beauty pageant when she was told she had to lose weight.
• United Airlines has hired an executive whose job position is listed as "Storyteller."
• Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal finds Monday is the day of the week when your coworkers are most likely to be rude.
• New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is denying reports that he yelled out "Trump!" to signal an audible during Sunday's game.
• In the first game of the World Series, Taco Bell did a promotion where if a player stole a base, everyone in America would get a free Doritos Locos Taco. A player did, so your free taco day is this Wednesday.
• The LAPD is investing Rob Kardashian and whether he made a threat against someone.
• NBC has already announced that next year, their live holiday musical will be a production of "Bye Bye Birdie," starring Jennifer Lopez. This year, they're doing "Hairspray" with Harvey Fierstein on December 7.
• 29-year-old Pete Kostelnick of Lincoln, Nebraska, completed a 3,100-mile cross-country run from San Francisco to New York City a week ago today in a record, 42 days, 8 hours, 34 minutes -- shattering the 36-year-old mark by nearly four days.
• Auburn University announced that it will put a statue of Charles Barkley outside its basketball arena.
• Men's Health says a Cornell University study found dieters shown a negative message about junk food like it's evil ate 39 percent more of it than people given a positive message like it's tasty.
• They say it was Mariah Carey's spending that may have doomed her engagement to billionaire James Packer. Others say it was his jealousy over one of the dancers in her troupe. Either way, the engagement's officially over.
• Most Republicans believe Russia is attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
• A collection of personal items from the late Tupac Shakur is going up for sale -- including his passport for $57,000; a prison-inmate ID for $35,000; and a gold-crown pendant that he allegedly wore when he was shot, and that was dented by a bullet, for $125,000.
• On Friday, a New Yorker received a dunning notice. The United States Treasury billed for money owed. The sum? Seven cents. It's been paid.
• Quick election history from 1860. Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas was to be the Democratic nominee. But, for a first in USA history, Democrats splintered in two. The North wanted Douglas. The South picked Kentucky's slavery advocate John Breckinridge. A who-knows-who coalition pushed Tennessee Sen. John Bell. The result? The fractious free-for-all elected Abraham Lincoln.