Volume 2 Issue 33 by Tidbits of Niagara Region

1.How many hotels are operated on the Disneyland grounds, owned by Disney? 2.Name the only Disneyland ride to hang from the ceiling?

3. What is the name of the transportation system throughout Disneyland? 4. What ride beings in Space Port where guests board a rocket? 5. Where would a visitor find “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” and “Peter Pan’s Flight”?

“What youngster has not dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice’s nonsensical Wonderland?” -- Walt Disney

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FISH NOSE • A researcher working with minnows noticed that when he accidentally injured one, the other fish in the tank began darting around in panic. Further experiments showed that minnows release a pheromone when injured, which warns other fish in the vicinity. The cells in the skin of the fish that release this chemical are so sensitive that they release the scent even when the fish is gently placed on a moist paper towel. The pheromones are so powerful that if a thousandth of a milligram of chopped minnow skin is dropped into a 4 gallon aquarium, the other fish can sense it. That’s equal to chopping a marshmallow into 20 million pieces and dropping one of those specks into a sink full of water, and still being able to taste the sweetness. Minnows can even pick up this scent when exposed to the poop of pike that has eaten minnows. The minnows do not react to the scent of pike poop when the pike have been eat-

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ing swordtail fish, but only when they’ve been feeding on other minnows. • A sockeye salmon can smell shrimp extract even when diluted at one part shrimp to a hundred million parts water, equal to five teaspoons dissolved in an Olympic-size swimming pool. Other types of salmon can detect the scent of a seal even when diluted to one 80 billionth, equal to a drop in the same swimming pool. But the American eel takes the top prize for being able to pick up scents, it’s able to pick up one ten millionth of a drop of a scent diluted in an Olympic pool. HUNTING BUDDIES • Groupers and moray eels often team up to go hunting together. The grouper is the more effective hunter in open water, but the moray eel can flush prey out of tight crevices. The grouper makes a shimmying motion in front of the eel to signal readiness to hunt, and will point out the specific location of prey by doing a headstand right above where a meal is hiding.

• The canned luncheon meat called Spam was introduced by Hormel in 1937. Canning meat was a novel idea. In an era where preserving meat was difficult, Spam was an immediate hit. By 1940, it’s estimated that 70% of Americans had tried it. • Spam was created to make use of surplus pork shoulder, mixing it with ham, salt, sugar and sodium nitrite. It has the same basic ingredients as hot dogs. • The name was the invention of Ken Daigneau, who won $100 in a contest to come up with the best name for the new product. It probably didn’t hurt that Ken was the brother of a Hormel executive at the time. There is a lot of speculation about what the word “spam” stands for, including “spiced ham,” “special processed American meat,” “spare meat,” and “shoulders of pork and ham.” But the truth is that no one really knows. • Spam got a big boost in popularity at the onset of World War II when it was difficult to get fresh meat to soldiers. During the war, Hormel sold more than half of its output to the U.S. government, which supplied not only the armed forces of the U.S., but also the soldiers of the U.S.S.R. Over 100 million pounds of Spam were consumed by Russian forces during the war. “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army,” Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev later said. It was so prominent that Uncle Sam was nicknamed “Uncle Spam.” • Spam was also popular during the Korean War, and the natives developed a taste for it. Even today, South Koreans consume more Spam than any other country except the U.S. (continued on page 6)

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