Animal Eyes

Elvis Presley auditioned to join a gospel quartet when he was 19, but was rejected. This didn’t deter the young musician, who later went on to become, well, ‘The King’! Interestingly, Elvis didn’t write a single one of his songs, but put new twists on the melodies written for him, taking them to another level.

The world’s most expensive instrument is the Lady Blunt Stradivarius violin. It was sold for a record price of $15.9 million! The beautiful and costly violin was auctioned by the Nippon Music Foundation to help raise money for the earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan.

For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!