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“People hate feeling bored. We hate it so much that we spend hours mindlessly scrolling through our phones. Many of us would rather experience physical discomfort than sit quietly with our own thoughts, as a 2014 University of Virginia study found. Nearly half of participants sitting alone in a room for 15 minutes, with no stimulation other than a button that would administer a mild electric shock, pressed the button.” Constantly scrolling on your phone? Why we can’t stand feeling bored.

+ It’s illegal to own a pet raccoon in Kansas. One man is trying to change that. “For the past four years, Lenexa resident Stephen Kaspar has been feeding and training wild raccoons that wander onto his property. ‘It is the highlight of my life,’ he said during a legislative hearing on Monday. ‘These are the things that you do when you become an empty nester. You start playing with raccoons in the backyard.'” (I’ll just stick with my current empty nester plan: Constant scrolling on my phone occasionally interrupted by a really heavy electric shock…)