Article: [ * You say you're not influenced by all those misleading, inflammatory campaign ads? ]

* You say you're not influenced by all those misleading, inflammatory campaign ads? Well, somebody surely is. The Center for Responsive Politics looked at House races going back to 1972 and found that the candidate in each race who spent the most advertising dollars won 92 percent of the time, hitting 98 percent in recent years. In Senate races since 1996, the biggest spender won 89 percent of the time.

* Biologists tell us that bats always turn left when they exit a cave.

* If you ever have to choose between your left and right lung, keep the right. It has three lobes to take in air and exhale carbon dioxide. Your left lung, however, has only two. Why? To make room for your heart and ...

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