— Starbucks is expanding its menu to include Sriracha. The coffee giant will now offer complimentary packets of Sriracha with its breakfast sandwiches and salads. There is also a new sandwich available — peanut butter with strawberry jelly — which comes with vegetables and chocolate covered raisins. And because it is fall, customers can wash all that Sriracha and peanut butter down with a Pumpkin Spice Latte.
— Here is one way to flush your political career down the drain: The CBC recently unearthed old footage of a Canadian parliament candidate peeing into the mug of a homeowner. Jerry Bance, who used to own an appliance repair company, was caught on hidden cameras used in a 2012 exposé of the home repair industry. The video shows Bance crouching in the kitchen to relieve himself and then dumping the urine in the sink. Bance has since dropped his campaign.
— Caffeine overdose is a growing, and lethal problem, thanks to the multitude of ways people can ingest the substance. In recent years, hospitals say that there has been a major "uptick in cases of caffeine overdose in emergency rooms." This year alone, there have been over 1,675 cases involving energy drinks. Nearly two-thirds of the cases were in children 18 or younger. The issue is so serous that the most recent American Psychiatry manual diagnoses caffeine withdrawal as a "bonafide mental health disorder." Doctors even run caffeine withdrawal clinics where they use techniques similar to those they use on patients who use hard drugs.