Born On This Day...    In 1547 Novelist, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)    In 1725 Soldier, Lord Robert Clive (founded the British empire in India)    In 1758 British naval hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson (Trafalgar)    In 1803 French mathematician, Charles-Francois Sturm (Sturm's theorem)    In 1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, American educator of the deaf    In 1895 Parapsychogist, Joseph B. Rhine (extra sensory perception)    In 1901 Scientist, Enrico Fermi (co-developed atom bomb) [d: 11-29-54]    In 1902 Mexican president, Miguel Aleman (1946-52) [d: 5-14-83]    In 1903 Actress, Greer Garson (Goodbye Mr. Chips) [d: 4-6-96]    In 1904 Actor, Ted DeCorsia (Steve Canyon) [d: 4-11-73]    In 1907 Singer/actor, Gene Autry (Back in the Saddle) [d: 10-2-98]    In 1912 Italian film director, Michelangelo Antonioni (103)    In 1913 D...

YES OR B.S. The U.S. buys up almost 75% of the world's diamonds. (B.S., but we do buy up 50%) Halle Berry was originally offered the part of Annie, played by Sandra Bullock in the film "Speed." (Yes, and Stephen Baldwin was first offered the part of Jack played by Keanu Reeves) Most dinosaurs were no bigger than chickens. (Yes, sure you always hear about T-Rex and the brontosaurs, but the vast majority of the species were quite small) The Statue of Liberty has a thirty-five-foot-thick waist. (Yes) The state capital that is closest to the equator is Honolulu, Hawaii. (Yes) In terms of revenue, FedEx is the nation's largest transport company. (B.S., it's UPS, United Parcel Service) The Untouchables (1987) was the story of John Gotti. (B.S., It was about Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner) The main leading man (actor) in "The War of the Roses", "Disclosure" and "Wall Street" was Charlie Sheen. (B.S., it was Michael Douglas)...

Travel restrictions scheduled this week on I-10 east of Tucson Motorists traveling on Interstate 10 east of Tucson will encounter lane closures this week while the Arizona Department of Transportation prepares to begin work to improve segments of the highway in Pima and Cochise counties. The following restrictions will be in effect in the coming days: On Tuesday (Sept. 29) eastbound I-10 will be reduced to one lane at Davidson Canyon, located about 20 miles east of downtown Tucson between mileposts 282 and 284 On Wednesday (Sept. 30) I-10 will be reduced to one lane in each direction near the Mescal Road/J-Six Ranch exit (Exit 297) in western Cochise County On Thursday (Oct. 1) I-10 will be reduced to one lane in each direction near the Marsh Station traffic interchange (Exit 291) in eastern Pima County The restrictions each day will be in effect from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. and the posted speed limit within the restricted area will be reduced to 55 mph. ADOT advise...

What the What? In Center Line, Michigan, a man with an apparent case of arachnophobia caused a fire at a suburban Detroit gas pump by putting a lighter to what he says was a spider near his fuel door. The guy escaped injury and his vehicle suffered little damage, but the gas pump was destroyed. A clerk shut off the pump from indoors and called the fire department. The motorist can be heard on the surveillance video at the Center Line station asking: "Is that a spider in there?" The video then shows flames erupting along the car's side, the pump and the pavement. The man darts to safety and later uses a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. A spider is not seen. The clerk says he apologized the next day. (myway.com)

American Justice! Last month officials in Carroll County, Maryland, finally released a woman they had been keeping behind bars for 67 days-- for no other reason than she refused to give her name to a traffic patrolman who had stopped her for a broken taillight. That's because, in her idiosyncratic understanding of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment, she could "not be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against herself" which she thought meant keeping her identity hidden from police. Eventually, sheriff's deputies captured her fingerprints, and since they matched no outstanding warrants, she was released. (Carroll County Times)

Why Babies Smile! Do you ever wonder what's going through your baby's mind when she smiles at you? Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, think they know. Their study, published in PLOS ONE , suggests that babies who are smiling are attempting to make whomever they're interacting with smile back -- all while the infants exert as little effort as possible. As the study explains, "By the time infants reach 4 months of age both mothers and infants time their smiles in a purposeful, goal-oriented manner. In our study, mothers consistently attempted to maximize the time spent in mutual smiling, while infants tried to maximize mother-only smile time." In fact, a press release notes, researchers found that babies use sophisticated timing in order to get what they want. Researchers first looked at a previous study that observed face-to-face interactions of 13 moms and their babies when the infants were aged 4 to 17 weeks. By using an algorithm to ...

Oh Hi Petra. Wait, Weren't You Murdered in 1984? A German woman assumed to have been murdered more than 30 years ago was found very much alive by police! But far from solving the mystery of her disappearance, her unexpected return is only deepening it. It seems 24-year-old Petra Pazsitka left her dentist to take a bus to her family's house in 1984 and was never seen again. Police searched for her to no avail, and it was assumed she had been murdered. In fact, a man suspected of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in the same area where Pazsitka was last seen confessed to her murder in 1987. But her body was never found. Two weeks ago, a woman calling herself "Mrs. Schneider" called Dusseldorf police to report a burglary to her home. When officers asked for identification, she reportedly confessed to being the now-55-year-old Pazsitka. Police say she's been living in various cities around Germany under a fake name and without any official documents. With no b...