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Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Darrell Darnell, this week I got some shirts embroidered with the Pro Podcast Solutions logo, and I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living. In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I’m pleased to bring you another installment of the Friday Forum.
Today’s fun fact: Here are some more fun facts about fireworks.
- The word for firework in Japanese, ‘hanabi’, which actually means “fire-flower”.
- The hardest color to create is blue, which is done with copper oxidizers. The temperature of the reaction has to be just right.
- Orange is the easiest color to create for fireworks. Up until the Middle Ages, fireworks were only orange and white, and now they come in a variety of colors.
- In order to make each color, different metals are used. We already know copper is used to make blue, but here are the other colors and their metals: Green (barium), Orange (calcium), Yellow (sodium), White (aluminum and titanium) and Red (lithium salts and strontium salt).
- If you gathered all the fireworks Americans will set off this week they’d weigh more than the Statue of Liberty, cost more than a Powerball jackpot, and release more energy than 100,000 bolts of lightning.
Friday Forum
Today is the Friday Forum!! I’m Darrell Darnell, and in today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I share Friday Forum contributions from Joshua and Barb. You can participate in the Friday Forum by visiting our Feedback Page or calling our voice feedback line at 304-837-2278.
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