May 29, 2015

• Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert indicted for hiding payments made to alleged blackmailer.
• Investigation into who owns London's most expensive mansion.
• If you’re recovering a body in an apartment building, ask every tenant to make coffee—it covers the smell.
• For the first time in 16 years, as many Americans say they are liberal on social issues as say they are conservative.
• The campaign of Mike Beitiks, running for Senate in California, has one message: we are all going to die.
• FIFA likely to re-elect sexist/corrupt Sepp Blatter, despite opposition from US, Canada, and Europe.
• United Airlines offered men-only flights until 1970, with steak dinners and complimentary cigars.
• Until 1998, the only non-white American Girl doll was Addy, a runaway slave.
• Globally, suicide is the main cause of death among 15 to 19-year-olds girls; the most probable explanation is gender discrimination.
• British beach town credits ban on "mankinis" for a significant drop in antisocial behavior and crime.
• The oldest living French Open champion—Raymonde Veber Jones, age 97—tells all.
• For second year in a row, National Spelling Bee ends with a tie.
• Former high-school athletes go on to make more money than non-athletes, but no one's quite sure why.
• Being a contract United States Postal System employee is basically insanely terrible.
• Self-driving 18-wheelers will take so long to develop, this generation of truckers need not worry.
• See also: Driverless cars are going to make some people puke.
• Fascinating analysis of how ants engineer traffic better than humans.
• You tell sex-history calculator how many people you’ve slept with, and it will tell you if that’s a lot.
• Blogger explains how he tricked the global media into believing people can lose weight with chocolate.