Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Oct. 31, 2003
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Why do ghost hunters scatter salt on the floor? To hear if something is moving about the room of a haunted house.
Has life been created in a laboratory? Romanian physicists have recently created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate, and communicate, thus fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells.
Halloween used to be the last day of the year in the old Celtic calendar.
Hungarian Countess Erzebet Bathory is credited in many chronologies of vampire-related crime as the first person on record to be murderously motivated by blood.