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- The CIA has enlisted the guy who led the manhunt for Osama bin Laden to figure out what's going on with the Havana Syndrome.
- Axios has a state-by-state breakdown of where all the U.S. Olympians are from. (New York has 27; New Jersey has 20.)
- A megayacht deckhand told Bloomberg what his job is like, and noted the ubiquity of yachts that travel with a second yacht for sex workers.
- Mark Zuckerberg said it's "inevitable" that racism and deadly health misinformation will continue to exist on Facebook.
- The Coast Guard just rescued a man who spent the past several days in a remote part of Alaska fending off a grizzly bear.
- A once-popular video hosting site called Vidme was recently purchased by a hardcore porn website, meaning that New York magazine, the Washington Post, and other mainstream publishers now have video embeds on their articles that link to porn.
- Eater has this remembrance of the Arch Deluxe, a fancy hamburger that McDonald's created in 1996 that totally flopped.
- Kanye West debuted his new album, Donda, at a live event in Atlanta last night.
- And finally, Squirrel Spa:
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