THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • According to a new study, British people are having dinner two hours later than in 1997.
  • "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is set to conclude after this season.
  • Scarlett Johansson and Colin Yost are officially engaged after two years of dating.
  • Little Caesars is joining the meatless-madness and coming out with an "Impossible Pizza." Yep, no meat. Just a meat-like substance.
  • Melvin Edmonds, a founding member of After 7 and older brother of Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, died Saturday following a short illness. He was 65.
  • "John Wick 3" actually bumped "Avengers: End Game" out of the number one spot over the weekend.
  • Whitney Houston's family is working with a producer and it looks like there will soon be a Whitney Houston hologram tour. Would you go?
  • David Begnaud, Jericka Duncan, Anna Werner and Vladimir Duthiers are the new correspondents for "CBS This Morning." The co-hosts are Gayle King, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil.
  • "Hoss" is in Cambridge, Ohio. That's the name that's been given to a 4-foot tall, 125-pound hairball that locals hope, someday, will get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
  • A new study says that drinking too many sugary drinks every day-including fruit juice-increases your chances of dying early by as much as 42%.
  • A judge has confirmed an associate of Donald Trump gave feds the phone number of Osama bin Laden that helped catch him.
  • Hackers are demanding $100,000 from the city of Baltimore before saying they will start deleting data using ransomware.
  • A big "oops" at a British restaurant which accidentally served a customer a $5,700 bottle of wine instead of the $330 bottle they ordered.
  • They estimate that 20% of the "Game of Thrones" fans missed work yesterday after the finale.
  • 414 million pieces of plastic trash were found on remote Australian islands inhabited by only 500 people.
  • Comedian Sammy Shore, who co-founded The Comedy Store and was the father of Pauley Shore, died over the weekend at age 92.
  • To add insult to injury, in the final episode of "Game of Thrones", there were a couple of scenes that contained water bottles. At least no Starbucks cup this time.
  • Katharine McPhee and David Foster have planned a summer wedding in London, but may have gone and already gotten secretly married.
  • Less than a week before the Spice Girls' reunion tour kicks off in Ireland, Mel B was reportedly rushed to the hospital after losing vision in her right eye.
  • Boy George had a run-in with one of the contestants of "The Voice-Australia" and stormed off the set. Won't know until next week's episode if he's coming back.
  • The big royal news this week-Prince Louis is walking.
  • Morehouse College seniors got a surprise Sunday when billionaire investor Robert F. Smith announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the student-loan debt for the historically black college's graduating class.

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