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“Users will also be required to enter 15 items of personal information, including height, educational background and occupation, which will be disclosed to potential matches. An interview with the app’s operators will be mandatory for registration. On top of that, users will be required to sign a pledge stating that they are using the app to find a marriage partner, rather than seeking a casual relationship.” Tokyo dating app to promote marriage, keep out phonies.

+ I’ve spent decades honing (often of under extreme duress) my sixth sense for bathroom location and availability—and now everyone has access. A new Google Maps layer shows public restrooms in NYC.

+ “Event participants set the record for the most people eating pink soup at once, together, while they beat spoons against their bowls in anticipation for the event to start. Though only in its second year, the Vilnius Pink Soup Festival has already caused a bit of a stir as the city’s tourism agency might have just started a public beef between Latvia and Lithuania over cold beet soup.” Baltic ‘beet down’: Latvia and Lithuania clash over cold pink soup. If you can’t beet ’em…