Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The ugly baby being held by Satan in The Passion of the Christ represents evil distorting what is good.

Parts of Detroit are reverting to farmland.

Left in minus 40 degree brine for several minutes, several lobsters have been known to come back to life after thawing. So says Trufresh, a Connecticut seafood company. However, folks at the University of Maine's Lobster Institute and the Offshore Lobstermen's Association in Candia, N.H., have their doubts.

By her own admission, Anna Nicole Smith is allergic to onions.

All modern domestic dogs originated from a single species, probably an East Asian wolf seeking the warmth of the human hearth and an easy meal. According to dog researcher Norine E. Noonan, dogs were domesticated at least 100,000 years ago.

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