What is the name of our planet's largest hot desert?
The Sahara desert in Africa is the largest desert in the world. In fact, Sahara is only the largest HOT desert as the Arctic desert and the Antarctic desert are bigger, but are usually referred to as polar deserts.
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The Sahara desert in Africa is the largest desert in the world. In fact, Sahara is only the largest HOT desert as the Arctic desert and the Antarctic desert are bigger, but are usually referred to as polar deserts.
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Where is most of the world's fresh water present?
Antarctica, at 14 million square kilometers (about 5,400,000 square miles), the ice sheet in Antarctica is the largest solid ice mass on the planet. The enormous frozen structure contains about 90 percent of all the fresh water on Earth.
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Antarctica, at 14 million square kilometers (about 5,400,000 square miles), the ice sheet in Antarctica is the largest solid ice mass on the planet. The enormous frozen structure contains about 90 percent of all the fresh water on Earth.
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Which countries are completely surrounded by another country?
Lesotho, San Marino, and Vatican City are known to be the only countries that are completely surrounded by another country. Lesotho is encircled by South Africa, Vatican City and San Marino, both are encompassed by Italy.
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Lesotho, San Marino, and Vatican City are known to be the only countries that are completely surrounded by another country. Lesotho is encircled by South Africa, Vatican City and San Marino, both are encompassed by Italy.
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Facts about Great Pyramid of Giza.
Location: El Giza, Egypt
Built: 2550 BC
Build By: Pharaoh Khufu
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It one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The largest pyramid ever built, it incorporates about 2.3 million stone blocks, weighing an average of 2.5 to 15 tons each. The pyramid has three burial chambers. The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, the only pyramid to have been built this way.
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Location: El Giza, Egypt
Built: 2550 BC
Build By: Pharaoh Khufu
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It one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The largest pyramid ever built, it incorporates about 2.3 million stone blocks, weighing an average of 2.5 to 15 tons each. The pyramid has three burial chambers. The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, the only pyramid to have been built this way.
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🖌Facts about Taj Mahal.
Location: Agra, India
Built: 1632–1653
Build By: Shah Jahan
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It is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra on the southern bank of the Yamuna River. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision, including Abd ul-Karim Ma'mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer.
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Location: Agra, India
Built: 1632–1653
Build By: Shah Jahan
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It is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra on the southern bank of the Yamuna River. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision, including Abd ul-Karim Ma'mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer.
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What is the wettest inhabited place in the world?
Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.
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Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.
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What are jellyfish made of?
Only about five percent of the body of a jellyfish is solid matter; the rest is water(95% water). Lacking brains, blood, or even hearts, jellyfish are pretty simple critters. They are composed of three layers: an outer layer, called the epidermis; a middle layer made of a thick, elastic, jelly-like substance called mesoglea; and an inner layer, called the gastrodermis. An elementary nervous system, or nerve net, allows jellyfish to smell, detect light, and respond to other stimuli. The simple digestive cavity of a jellyfish acts as both its stomach and intestine, with one opening for both the mouth and the anus.
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Only about five percent of the body of a jellyfish is solid matter; the rest is water(95% water). Lacking brains, blood, or even hearts, jellyfish are pretty simple critters. They are composed of three layers: an outer layer, called the epidermis; a middle layer made of a thick, elastic, jelly-like substance called mesoglea; and an inner layer, called the gastrodermis. An elementary nervous system, or nerve net, allows jellyfish to smell, detect light, and respond to other stimuli. The simple digestive cavity of a jellyfish acts as both its stomach and intestine, with one opening for both the mouth and the anus.
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🖌Australia may be surrounded by water, but it doesn't have the World's Longest Coastline.
Being its own continent and completely surrounded by water, you’d think Australia would easily have the honor of being the country with the longest coastline. However, that title goes to Canada. Canada has 152,100 miles of coastline, compared to Australia’s measly 16,000 miles. In fact, Australia ranks seventh on the list of the world’s longest coastlines, coming in behind Indonesia, Greenland, Russia, Philippines, and Japan.
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Being its own continent and completely surrounded by water, you’d think Australia would easily have the honor of being the country with the longest coastline. However, that title goes to Canada. Canada has 152,100 miles of coastline, compared to Australia’s measly 16,000 miles. In fact, Australia ranks seventh on the list of the world’s longest coastlines, coming in behind Indonesia, Greenland, Russia, Philippines, and Japan.
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🖌This is how an egg looks like a crazy jellyfish underwater.
A cracked egg on land might make a big mess, but 18 metres (60 feet) below the surface of the ocean, the pressure on the egg is 2.8 times atmospheric pressure, and it holds it all together like an invisible egg shell.
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A cracked egg on land might make a big mess, but 18 metres (60 feet) below the surface of the ocean, the pressure on the egg is 2.8 times atmospheric pressure, and it holds it all together like an invisible egg shell.
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Which metal is liquid at standard room temperature?
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure. That's because the electrons that spin around the nucleus of a mercury atom have just weak links or bonds with other mercury atoms at room temperature, keeping the metal in a liquid state.
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Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure. That's because the electrons that spin around the nucleus of a mercury atom have just weak links or bonds with other mercury atoms at room temperature, keeping the metal in a liquid state.
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Can snakes predict earthquake?
Snakes can help predict earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away (121 km), up to five days before it happens.
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Snakes can help predict earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away (121 km), up to five days before it happens.
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🔵Facts About Kangaroos
🔸Kangaroos move by hopping, they swim and they can’t hop backwards!
🔸Kangaroos are the only large animals that move by hopping.
🔸If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
🔸A male kangaroo is called a boomer, a female is called a flyer and a baby kangaroo is a joey.
🔸A group of kangaroos is known as a mob.
🔸There are over 47 different species of Kangaroo, with the eastern gray kangaroo, being the most commonly known species.
🔸They use their tails for balance whilst jumping.
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🔸Kangaroos move by hopping, they swim and they can’t hop backwards!
🔸Kangaroos are the only large animals that move by hopping.
🔸If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
🔸A male kangaroo is called a boomer, a female is called a flyer and a baby kangaroo is a joey.
🔸A group of kangaroos is known as a mob.
🔸There are over 47 different species of Kangaroo, with the eastern gray kangaroo, being the most commonly known species.
🔸They use their tails for balance whilst jumping.
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How does a bird pee?
Birds convert nitrogen to uric acid, this is metabolically more costly but saves water and weight, as it is less toxic and doesn't need to be diluted so much. Birds therefore don't have a urethra, and don't pee – all waste leaves via the anus.
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Birds convert nitrogen to uric acid, this is metabolically more costly but saves water and weight, as it is less toxic and doesn't need to be diluted so much. Birds therefore don't have a urethra, and don't pee – all waste leaves via the anus.
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Does crying help relieve physical pain?
Research has found that in addition to being self-soothing, shedding emotional tears releases oxytocin and endorphins. These chemicals make people feel good and may also ease both physical and emotional pain. In this way, crying can help reduce pain and promote a sense of well-being.
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Research has found that in addition to being self-soothing, shedding emotional tears releases oxytocin and endorphins. These chemicals make people feel good and may also ease both physical and emotional pain. In this way, crying can help reduce pain and promote a sense of well-being.
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Does Eating carrots can turn your skin orange?
A condition called carotenemia, this can happen if you eat three large carrots or more every day for a long period of time. This is because the carrots give the body too much beta-carotene, which causes the changing color of your skin.
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A condition called carotenemia, this can happen if you eat three large carrots or more every day for a long period of time. This is because the carrots give the body too much beta-carotene, which causes the changing color of your skin.
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Can cockroach live without head?
A cockroach can live for a week without its head. Due to their open circulatory system, and the fact that they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments, they are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.
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A cockroach can live for a week without its head. Due to their open circulatory system, and the fact that they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments, they are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.
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The Total Weight of Ants on Earth Once Equaled the Total Weight of People
Entomologists have estimated that there are at least one million trillion insects and only one percent of that number is ants, according to the BBC. And if you took all those ants (about ten thousand trillion) and put them on one side of a giant scale, you could almost put all of the people in the world onto the other and balance things out.
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Entomologists have estimated that there are at least one million trillion insects and only one percent of that number is ants, according to the BBC. And if you took all those ants (about ten thousand trillion) and put them on one side of a giant scale, you could almost put all of the people in the world onto the other and balance things out.
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What is bryophytes in biology?
Bryophytes are a group of plant species that reproduce via spores rather than flowers or seeds. Most bryophytes are found in damp environments and consist of three types of non-vascular land plants: the mosses, hornworts, and liverworts.
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Bryophytes are a group of plant species that reproduce via spores rather than flowers or seeds. Most bryophytes are found in damp environments and consist of three types of non-vascular land plants: the mosses, hornworts, and liverworts.
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What is WTO and its functions?
In brief, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
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In brief, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
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