truTV: Not Reality. Actuality.

Questionable new products: The Japanese manufacturer Nihon Sofuken recently introduced a slightly peach-flavored drink called Placenta 10000, but Wired.com was not able to verify whether it contains actual human placenta (which is supposed to have miraculous regenerating powers for some parts of the body).

A highlight of this year's Easter promotion by the Jelly Belly company (as additions to its 50 standard flavors) was its surprise BeanBoozled boxes, with odd tastes and non-standard colors. Although garlic beans, buttered-toast beans and cheese pizza beans are no longer available, connoisseurs can sample jelly beans made to taste like pencil shavings, ear wax, moldy cheese and vomit. A Jelly Belly spokeswoman told Newhouse News Service in March, "There are 20 flavors in each little box ... so you don't know what flavor you are tasting ... coconut or baby wipe."

CLARIFICATION: Three weeks ago, News of the Weird reported that David Henton, 72, was on trial in Swansea, Wales, accused of murdering his longtime girlfriend, based on secret recordings police had made in Henton's home, in which he seemingly "confessed" the murder to his only companions, his cats, to whom he spoke frequently. On March 14, a jury found Henton not guilty, probably because the tapes were not as intelligible to the jury as the police claimed they were.

While many lab mice get selected, unfortunately, for work like cancer research, one group of male rodents at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston has been hard at work, with constant erections, helping researchers develop a biochemical treatment for priapism, which plagues men with certain blood disorders. (The condition is named for the Greek god Priapus, who, to be punished for sexual misbehavior, supposedly received an enormous, but useless, wooden penis.)

While "March Madness" dominates intercollegiate athletics, another group of collegians works out amidst coaches' whistles, endures bloody, 12-hour practices, and cheers on teammates preparing for the national championship in meat-judging, in which about 40 colleges compete, according to a March Wall Street Journal report. Coaches at powerhouses like Colorado State and South Dakota State say skills such as evaluating T- bone cutting and spotting whether a pig has too much back fat come with determination and concentration (and of course, practice, as one coach said it all comes down to time spent in the meat locker, at 38 degrees (F)). (And pro scouts are watching from the stands representatives of U.S. meat companies, seeking talent.) .