When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes. Medical researchers say that, but they don't say exactly how they found out.

Switzerland's law requires dental warnings on packaged snacks. Such as: "This food may be harmful to your teeth."

The World Health Organization lists insects hazardous to human health. Not listed, cockroaches.

Q. Portuguese kings have never worn crowns. Why not?

A. Tradition there decrees nobody but the Virgin Mary has ever had the right to wear a crown.

Styles in names change. The name that Benjamin Franklin put on his first published writings was "Silence Dogwood." Too whimsical today even for a penname. But the historical footnotes suggest Franklin's brother James published the writings without suspecting the byline was phony.

Seventy-four percent of the "if I had it to do over again" men say they would go for a job that would let them spend more time with their families.

Remove a kidney, and the other gets bigger, much bigger. So say the medicos.

Q. I know the Gauls of what's now France invented soap. But how?

A. They used goat fat and ash to plaster down their hair. It rained. They noted the wet mix washed off all the dirt and grease. Or so goes the story.