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Students in Oregon schools will be able to take ‘Mental Health Days’ in addition to sick days. Now their classmates can accuse them of faking the flu and bipolar depression.

Workers moving shelves and coolers at a grocery store in Council Bluffs, Iowa found the remains of a worker there who had been missing since 2009. His identity was confirmed using a combination of DNA and his ‘Best If Used By’ date.

‘Virtual Staging’ – using computer-generated images in photos of empty homes for sale – is growing in popularity. Home sellers say it’s an easy way for buyers to picture the home with different furnishings, or a different family.

A United Kingdom family claims a seagull scooped up their pet chihuahua in its beak and flew off with it. They also claim a second seagull stole large fries to go with the dog.

  • The seagull was tired of the usual food at the beach and wanted to get Mexican.

A new study finds young adults expect financial independence by age 23, but parents don’t think they’ll be independent until age 25. Young adults based answers on expected income; parents based answers on having 25-year-old kids living in their basement.

Actress Bella Thorne came out as pansexual. Horny boys promptly came out as pans.

A resident of the New York City borough of Queens found a wrapped, intact In-N-Out ‘Double Double’ burger lying on the street. The nearest In-N-Out location is 1,500 miles away. Grubhub has reported a 95-year-old delivery person from Los Angeles missing.

Vice President Mike Pence reportedly cancelled a visit to New Hampshire in early July to avoid meeting with a civic leader who was, unknowingly, being investigated for drug trafficking. Pence wrestled with the decision because the man was really cute.

Four minors, including a six-year-old, are identified as suspects in the theft of guns from a North Carolina store. Because of his age, his name is not being released, but his playdate calendar just cleared out bigtime.

The Environment America Research and Policy Center listed the five dirtiest beaches in each U.S. coastal or Great Lakes city, except for New Jersey, which listed “Atlantic City, then everywhere else”.

 

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Facebook announced its new cryptocurrency, Libra. It’s the easy-to-understand alternate currency from the people who brought you Facebook Privacy Settings.

  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the need for a new cryptocurrency, because after the first few billion, U.S. dollars get boring.

Marvel Studios is rereleasing Avengers: Endgame with new scenes: of a mortuary technician’s electrocution death from pouring embalming fluid on the thing in Tony Stark’s chest, and Thanos hip-hop dancing to Snap “I’ve Got The Power”.

Rotten Tomatoes published a list of 150 Erotic Movies – Ranked Worst to Best. No men have yet challenged the rankings cause they’ve been stuck in the 140s for a while now.

Conservative publication National Review gave one of the few negative reviews to Disney’s upcoming Toy Story 4, citing cowboy Woody’s refusal to detain toys made in Mexico.

Apple will offer device repair at over 1,000 Best Buy stores, at locations called The Not Exactly Genius Bar.

Google announced a new initiative with 4-H Clubs to bring coding skills to rural towns. They just need computers with keyboards big enough for the cows’ & pigs’ hooves.

Actress Bella Thorne issued a tearful video in response to Whoopi Goldberg’s criticism of her for the release of hacked nude pictures. Goldberg said Thorne shouldn’t take nudes to begin with, a sentiment echoed by Goldberg’s long-ago boyfriend, Ted Danson in blackface.

The Federal Reserve chose not to increase interest rates, meaning borrowers’s rates will remain the same on student loans they won’t pay back anyway.

A doctor in England removed a patient’s 2 1/2-centimeter-long chunk of earwax and posted it online. The patient’s hearing was restored and they also solved the mystery of the family’s missing hamster.

BuzzFeed posted a list of photographs of first class meals on 24 different airlines.  Spirit Airlines photo was a picture of a shirtless stowaway vagrant eating an egg salad sandwich in the cargo hold.

San Francisco became the first city to ban e*cigarettes – while announcing a concurrent  plan to provide Juul’ing douchebags safe spaces to kick their habit such as poetry slams and comedy open mics.