THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Oscar Pistorius-the “Blade Runner” who made history last year as the first paralympian to compete in the able-bodied Olympics-was charged with murder Thursday after his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, was found shot dead inside his home in South Africa.
• Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old in a valley just north of Lima. It could be the oldest site ever discovered in the world.
• Steve Martin is a dad! The 67-year-old actor and his 41-year-old wife welcomed a baby into the world in December, keeping the whole thing a secret.
• A wealthy donor says that Bill Clinton told him that Hillary will run for president in 2016.
• Iceland is considering a complete ban on pornography.
• Lady Gaga says the pain in her right hip had become too much to bear. She’s been hiding it from her staff and says she’s had a history of “borderline lupus.”
• There’s a movie being made about the making of the movie “Mary Poppins,” with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson… but no Julie Andrews to be seen anywhere.
• A woman who is believed to be the last surviving food taster for Adolf Hitler says that, towards the end, Hitler was a vegetarian.
• New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s latest target: Styrofoam. He’d like a complete ban in the city.
• A 30-year-woman in Atlanta appears to have drank herself to death with a 2-gallon a day Coca Cola habit.
• After 7 years in Las Vegas, the Miss America pageant is heading back to the shores of New Jersey.
• Alyson Hannigan has taken out a restraining order against a guy who keeps making threats against her and her family online.
• Daryl Hannah and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were among those arrested at the White House, protesting the Keystone Oil Pipeline project.
• On the day that a new season of “Survivor” got underway, the announcement was made that Jeff Probst’s talk show was canceled after only one season.
• 33.5-million tuned in for the president’s “State of the Union” speech the other night.