How to spot a lie by the words people use. Forensic linguist Kirsty King of University College London says liars tend to slip in five ways:

Useful the next time a teenager explains a missed curfew.

The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb. Gottlieb rewrote Jaws while the cameras rolled, and this is his diary of a shoot where almost everything went wrong. The script was reworked practically every night with Spielberg, the three leads and the film's editor.The mechanical shark (Bruce) kept breaking down, so it ended up on screen about a third as often as Spielberg's storyboards planned. Spielberg came home 159 days and nearly $8 million later.

Italian sausage tortellini soup. Brown a pound of mild Italian sausage with an onion, a little crushed fennel seed and Italian seasoning. Add carrots, celery and tomato paste, then seven cups of beef broth. Drop in 20 ounces of cheese tortellini, stir in a couple cups of cream and a few handfuls of spinach, and finish with Parmesan. It's one big pot, and the full recipe is in the caption. More than 145,000 people have liked it.

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Test the smoke alarms. Clocks fall back next Sunday, Nov. 1, the classic reminder. Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire by 60%, according to the latest NFPA research, and about three in five home fire deaths happen in homes with no alarm or none that works.

Five minutes and a step stool.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are on the rocks. After 25 years calling games together, the Monday Night Football duo reportedly argued before an Oct. 12 game, and it was about money. Buck just signed a six-year ESPN extension worth about $108 million. Aikman, in the final year of his deal, reportedly hasn't gotten a formal offer. Fox reportedly pays Tom Brady $37.5 million a year to do the same job. Aikman says he'd be "one hundred percent" open to staying with Buck. Enjoy them while you can.

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— The 1% Better Team