So long, 2015, and thanks for setting up our punch lines

It must be true; it’s on the interwebs: It’s shocking, we know, but Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg isn’t really giving away $45 billion in Facebook shares to 1,000 random people on the social network if they just “copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY and tag 5-10 friends.”

In not really a scam but a new app that Facebook recently purchased from a developer that shows you which of your friends is really that gullible.

Not-so-bitter herbs: A New York company is preparing to offer a kosher medical marijuana product that conforms to Jewish dietary law. The non-smokable cannabis will be grown and processed according to kosher standards.

And it’s great on a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese.

And extra caviar: The 18-year-old Texas man who fled to Mexico after he was put on juvenile probation, claiming “affluenza” was responsible for a fatal drunken driving accident, is awaiting extradition in Puerto Vallarta. Police were alerted to his location after he ordered a pizza.

The dead-giveaway was that he ordered the pizza with upper crust.

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