INTERESTING STUFF! A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it! A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. There are almost twice as many species of butterflies in the world as there are birds. Salmon use their sense of smell to travel home! Salmon are born in streams, then swim to the ocean, and years later swim back to the same exact place in the same exact stream to mate. Some insects can live up to a year without their heads. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with Midnight Cowboy. Her entire role lasted only six minutes. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. Every person has a unique tongue print. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. Albert Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. He grew up to be the world's most brilliant physicist. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. Chocolate kills dogs is true, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog. Daniel Boone (1734-1820) detested coonskin caps. He is one of the most famous pioneers in United States history. He devoted his life to exploring and settling the frontiers of his growing nation. Daniel Boone journeyed through the rugged wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains in 1769 and reached the unexplored area that became known as Kentucky. In 1799, he led settlers into what is now Missouri. Daniel Boone loved the wilderness and respected the American Indians. But he lived during a time of frequent fighting between the Indians and the frontier settlers. Indians captured him four times. His experience and his knowledge of the ways of the Indians saved many a settler's life and many a fort under attack. He was a top marksman with his favorite rifle, Tick-Licker. Most lipstick contains fish scales.