“One in eight Icelanders had already signed up for membership by the time doors opened in a Reykjavik suburb. Units from the country’s famed search and rescue teams were called in to manage crowd control on opening day.” And a fifth of the country’s population has joined the store’s Facebook group. In other words, Costco has come to Iceland.

+ There’s a test coming up in Ethiopia. So they shut off the internet. All of it.

+ Newsweek: Officials in Kuwait apprehended a pigeon carrying a backpack full of illegal pills. (Now I feel less weird about teaching my dog to fetch my bong.)