Leonardo Da Vinci - Navo

• Leonardo Da Vinci was the first one to explain why the sky is blue. Leonardo could write in one hand and draw in one hand. Contact lenses were invented and first introduced by Leonardo in 1568.
• Leo was home schooled and lacked in formal education (Greek and Latin).
• Leo's last words were: I have offended god and insulted Mankind. My work did not reach the quality it should have.
• Bill Gates bought Leo's work in 1994 for 30 million US dollars, and a few pages were used as a screen saver in Windows 95.
• Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting was very famous after it was stolen by The Louvre in 1911.
• The Mona Lisa painting would always look at you and the eyes moved, nobody knows how Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

Volcanoes - AJ

• Between 10 and 20 volcano are erupting somewhere on earth everyday. The word Volcano came from the Roman god of fire, Vulcan.
• The southernmost active Volcano is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the US research center. There is a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue flames.
• In 1600, a volcano eruption in Peru caused a famine that killed 2 million people in Russia. The Japanese authorities built a fence around a volcano at mount Mihara to stop a trend of 2,000 people committing sues side by jumping in.
• In 1986 a volcanic lake burped a Co2 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes. 80% of volcanic eruptions are caused or have happened under water.
• The volcanic system below the Yellow stone national park has enough lava to fill up 11 full Grand Canyons! In 1943, a fissure opened in a farmer's cornfield in Mexico, Growing into a five story tall volcano in only a week and up to 1,100 feet in a year.

Health - Navo

• People who usually eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants are more likely to become obese. Sitting for three or more hours a day can cut off 2 years of a person's life expectancy. Over 30% of cancer can be prevented by avoiding Tobacco and Alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity. 
• Sleeping less than 7 hours hours can shorten a person's life expectancy. Each cigarette you use reduced your life span by 11 minutes. 1 can of soda can increase your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 22%. McDonald's caser salads are more fattening than their hamburger.
• On average, people who complain live longer, releasing the tension increases immunity and health.
• Half hour of exercise 6 days a week which is linked to 40% lower risk of early death. 
• Bill Gates' foundation spends more money on health globally each year than the United Nations. 

Titanic - AJ

• The musicians of the Titanic played for ours as the ship sunk. the budget for the famous movie the Titanic was a bigger budget than the Titanic itself.
• The Titanic's chief baker fortified himself with alcohol survived in the freezing water for two hours until he was rescued. Most lifeboats were not filled to their total capacity.
• The Titanic could have been saved if it wasn't for the 30 second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the ice berg. After hitting the ice berg the ship had sunk in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
• The Titanic was the only ocean liner to have been sunk by an ice berg. Four forward compartments could flood without risk, six did.
• The Titanic's fourth funnel was fake. they wanted people to think that the Titanic was more powerful than any other ship. Nearly a dozen couples were celebrating their honey moon on the Titanic.

Brahmanandam - Navo

• Brahmanandam Kanneganti (born 1 February 1956), is an Indian film actor and a popular comedian in south indian movies. Hailing from Chaganti Vari Palem village, Sattenapalli in Andhra Pradesh, he mostly acts in Telugu films.
•  Prior to films, he was a Telugu lecturer in Attili, a town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. 
• He currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most screen credits for a living actor. He was honoured with the Padma Shri, for his contribution to Indian cinema in 2009.
• Brahmanandam has broken the record of 1000 movies and he had stop counting his movies on his 997th movie says Brahmanandam.
• His awards were: Hyderabad Times Film Awards Best Actor in a Comic Role, He eaarned a spot in the Guinness world record for acting in 867 movies in 20 years and for having over 1000 movies.

Elvis Presley - Navo

• Elvis Presley was considered the best selling individual artist of all time, with over 500 million records sold. Elvis Presley didn't write any songs of his. Elvis Presley was originally having blonde hair but he dyed it black later on. 
• Elvis Presley had a twin brother that died at birth. Elvis Presley never performed out of north america. Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley were distant cousins. 
• Elvis Presley bought President Roosevelt's Presidential Yacht, The Potomac, for $55,000. Elvis Presley once asked his Limo driver, "Do you own this limo or do you work for the company?" the driver responded that he worked for the company. Elvis said "Well you own it now!" Elvis Presley had given the limo's price as a tip.
• Elvis Presley was a Black belt in karate class. In 1977, 3 men tried stealing Elvis Presley's remain for some ransom(money).
• Elvis's remains was moved to Graceland where it is monitored by security guards. Elvis Presley's daughter was Lisa Marie Presley.

Atomic Bomb - AJ

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs that were sent there had exploded in the air. A Japanese man survived both of the atomic bomb attacks during world war 2. A survivor of Hiroshima's attack went to Boston in 1951 and won a marathon. Fat Man was the code name for the bomb that had exploded in Nagasaki.
• Kokura, Japan was the main target for the atomic bomb but it had landed in Nagasaki. A Bonsai tree planted in 1626 had survived the atomic bomb attack and now resides in a U.S museum.
• A month after the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima, a Typhoon hit the city and had killed another 2,000 people. 10% of U.S electricity is made out of dismantled atomic bombs. In 1962, U.S blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was a 100 more times powerful than the one in Hiroshima.
• Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s. During the cold war, the U.S seriously considered dropping a bomb on the moon to show off there superiority. Russia has over 8,400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
• The atomic bomb explosion was only generated by one tiny paper clip. There is a nuclear bomb lost on the coast of Georgia. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb tried to kill his university tutor with a poisonous apple. 

Starbucks - Navo

• Starbucks has added an average of two stores on a daily basis since 1987.Starbucks had 137,000 employees or “partners” as they call them in 2010. This is twice the population of Greenland.
• There are over 87,000 possible drink combinations at Starbucks. The Trenta is slightly bigger than your stomach with the capacity to hold 916 milliliters. The stomach on average has a capacity of 900 ml. 
• The Starbucks cinnamon chip scone has more calories than a McDonald’s quarter pounder with 480 calories. 
• At $300 million Starbucks spends more on healthcare insurance for its employees than on coffee beans. They offer health insurance to all employees including part-time.
• Starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year, enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools.Starbucks uses 2.3 billion paper cups per year.They currently serve 40 million customers a week.

Holiday Gift Giving - Navo

• Gift giving is an ancient tradition practiced by emperors, chiefs, and heads of state. The exchange of presents between leaders was customary even in tribal times.
• Gifts also marked rites of passage and accomplishments. Most celebrate birthdays, marriages, births and deaths with gifts and gathering together. Everyone knew that the power of giving a gift or talent brought good fortune back to them.
• In early times cooperation was necessary for survival. If someone was helped, and didn’t return favors, soon the spirit of cooperation would die out – making life hard, if not impossible, to survive.
• Giving gifts and reciprocating is in your genetic history, evident in all cultures, and it influences exchanges of every kind. Co-operation builds relationships and communities, and in the right spirit, it is beneficial. Cooperation makes life fun, doesn’t it? Receiving gifts and exchanging talents feels great.
• Give small gifts that show you care and do it with no thought of return. Your attitude sets the tone, and the spirit of giving will continue to be exchanged in many new ways. Others are inspired to do the same – and do so unconsciously – making their lives better.

Thermosphere - Navo

•  Based on the vertical temperature profile in the atmosphere, the thermosphere is the highest layer, located above the mesosphere .
•  While in the troposphere and the mesosphere, the temperature decreases with altitude. In the stratosphere and thermosphere the temperature increases with height (called temperature inversion).
•  It is separated from the mesosphere by the mesopause, in which the temperature does not change much vertically. Above the thermosphere, the upper limit of the atmosphere, the exosphere can be found blending intospace . 
• The upper part of the mesosphere and a big part of the thermosphere overlap with theionosphere , which is a region defined on the basis of electric properties.
• The thermosphere and the exosphere together form the upper atmosphere.

Exosphere - Navo

• The Exosphere is a layer in the atmosphere and is the highest layer which is considered as outer space because there is no air there.
• The Exosphere is one of the five layers in the atmosphere. In the Exosphere you will find  satellites because there is less friction to irritate the satellites. Most of the molecules in the exosphere are pulled back into earth's lowest atmosphere by gravity. The pressure in the exosphere is created by solar wind storms that compress it.
• Although the exosphere is the most distance layer of earth's atmosphere it is the layer that is the planet's first line of defense against the sun's rays. It is also the first layer to come into contact and protect the earth from meteors, asteroids, and cosmic rays.
• If the boundary of the exosphere is considered to be where it is still affected by earth's gravity then the exosphere would be the largest part of earth's atmosphere.
•  If the boundary of the exosphere is considered to be approximately 6200 miles from the earth's surface, as many believe, then the thermosphere is the largest portion of the earth's atmosphere.