
Alligators love fruit.

A typical airplane uses about a dozen gyroscopes in everything from its compass to its autopilot.

First commemorative coin in U.S. history: The 1892 Columbian Exposition half-dollar, marking the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Americas.

In 1882, Australian Hugh Victor McKay created the first commercial combine harvester called the Sunshine Harvester. George Stockton Berry later created the steam powered combine harvester.

In the 1970’s, the Department of Defense created a programming language called ‘Ada’. It was named after 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. It is still in use today in the operations of real time systems.

To make your pineapple softer and juicier, keep it at room temperature for 1 or 2 days before cutting.