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“While watching a group of captive chimpanzees for her graduate research, Ena Onishi noticed something odd about the primates. ‘They seemed to have a tendency to urinate around the same time,’ said Onishi, a wildlife researcher at Kyoto University. ‘It reminded me of some human behaviors of going to the bathroom together, and got me thinking ‘could this be one of those contagious behaviors?'” (I used to think the same thing about the behavior of males my age until I realized that all of us just have to pee all the time…) Peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, study suggests.

+ At long last, Velveeta made nacho cheese you can stick in your pocket. (If the packaging leaks, you’re gonna have a lot of explaining to do…)