- A drone is a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or missile.
- There could be 30,000 drones overhead in the U.S. by 2020.
- In Britain, manufacturers have suggested painting drones bright
colors as a way to make them seem friendlier and less reminiscent of war
zones.
- The U.S.Air Force has 65,000 – 70,000 people working to process all of the data and footage it’s currently collecting from drones.
- Cape Canaveral is now a drone base.
- The harp is one of the world's oldest musical instruments, with evidence of its use dating as far back as 3000 B.C.
- All
harps have 3 different colors of strings: The C strings are red, F
strings are black. (these are sometimes blue) The remaining are white or
transparent.
- Some pedal harps are gilded with gold or encrusted with diamonds and jewels- these harps can cost upwards to $60,000!
- Celtic harps usually have 22-38 strings, where 3/4 size-concert grand size harps usually have 40-47 strings.
- Lap harps can weigh as little as 4.5 pounds, where a pedal harp can weigh over 120.
- The statue’s full name is Liberty Enlightening the World.
- It was a gift from France, given to America in 1886.
- The robed female figure represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom.
- There are 25 windows in the crown.
- Visitors have to climb 354 stairs to reach the statue’s crown.
- Aurora Borealis are discharged particles from the sun that pass through
the magnetic shield of earth and create light when they mix with atoms
and molecules such as nitrogen and oxygen gases on entering into the
earth's atmosphere.
- These particles travel 149 million kms or 93 million miles through space
towards planet earth being drawn towards the earth's magnetic north and
south polar regions.
- The aurora borealis is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek term for “wind of the north,” boreas.
- Scientists in Canada have been studying the northern lights for more than 170 years.
- During the 1989 geomagnetic storm, the northern lights could be seen as far south as Florida and Cuba.
- Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles.
- Certain ant species defend plants in exchange for food and shelter.
- Ants sometimes herd or tend to insects of other species, like aphids or leafhoppers.
- Ants started farming long before humans.
- Ants follow scent trails laid by scout ants to gather food.
- Dolphins are incredibly social animals. They live in groups and cooperate with each other to get food and in raising offspring.
- They play-fight with each other and also play with seaweed.
- Dolphins can jump as high as 20 feet out of the water.
- The “killer whale”, or Orca, is actually a dolphin.
- Dolphins use echolocation to find food and navigate. This is a natural version of radar.
- Denim was actually derived from the French term ‘serge de nimes’.
- In 1936, a red flag was sewed next to the back pocket by Levi Strauss and that was when the first label was ever attached to a piece of a garment.
- In the early 1960’s, denim was banned by many schools in the U.S as it had become an icon of teen rebellion.
- About 450 million jeans are sold in U.S.A alone each year.
- One bale of cotton can be used to produce 225 pairs of denim jeans.
