FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

1

DILLINGER WOULDN’T

ESCAPE THIS TIME

The exhumation of gangster John Dillinger, who terrorized the U.S. Midwest with bank robberies and shootings in the 1930s, will go on even though the History Channel backed out. Dillinger’s nephew Michael Thompson wants

to end speculation about who is buried in the plot. The cemetery objects to Thompson’s plan; he has sued them. Next court date is Oct. 1.

2

DEAD BODIES CAN MOVE FOR MORE

THAN A YEAR The Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER), took overhead pictures of a corpse every 30 minutes for 17 months, and found bodies move more than a year after death. That could be due to insect larvae, shrinkage of tissue or scavenging.

3

NOW THAT’S METHOD ACTING

Ruby Rose hopes her childhood experiences with her mom’s pet bats

will help with her role as Batwoman “My mpm would rescue injured bats and bring them into this outdoor bathroom, and they would s**t everywhere. She

loved them.”

4 HUNTING TRADITIONS

VS. ANIMAL LOVER

French hunters demand director Luc Besson pay $178,000 for damage caused by wild deer he won’t cull on his Normandy estate. In 1968, farmers handed their Napoleonic rights to kill any animals damaging their land to hunters, who agreed to pay for destruction by big game.

5 MAGPIE CAUSES CYCLIST DEATH

A 76-year-old man in Australia died of head injuries Sunday after he veered off a path and

crashed into a fence post, trying to avoid an attack by a male magpie

defending a nest.