Extra Extra: Boarding a plane is about to become 2 minutes faster

It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City where an empty plastic bottle will get you a free slice of pizza on Oct. 24 at Bleecker Street Pizza.

Here’s what else is happening:

• A South Carolina hot pepper expert broke his own record for growing the world’s hottest pepper, which is three times stronger than the last.
• Perhaps you’ll find your soulmate, or maybe a new friend, at a comedy show where the audience is made up of lonely people.
• A minke whale was found dead on Wednesday at a New Jersey marina.
• United Airlines is bringing back the “Wilma” method of boarding economy passengers next week in an effort to shave two minutes off of the boarding process. Window seat passengers will go first, followed by middle and aisle seaters.
• A cattle trailer carrying 44 cows rolled over an Interstate 84 off-ramp in Connecticut on Thursday morning, killing 14 cows.
• If you live in Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, or Ridgewood, you’re lucky enough to be in the delivery zones for Salvo’s, an Italian lunch delivery service, which arrives by moped, and only can be ordered on Instagram.
• Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to stop calling celebrity kids “nepo babies.”
• And finally, creepy but somehow also cute: