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​⁉️ What color do dogs eyes reflect?

✅ The colors of a dog's eyeshine aren't limited to red and green, either. They can be all shades of blue, orange, yellow, turquoise or even violet. The specific color reflected depends on the amount of zinc or riboflavin in the eye cells. Red glowing eyes at night are the result of blood vessels reflecting light.

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​⁉️ Why are your lips red?

✅ Your lips' red or pink pigment comes from underlying blood vessels -- red-colored, blood-filled capillaries are close to the thin skin on your lips. The transition of the reddish-pink outline of your lips to the rest of the skin is called the vermillion border, and it's found only in humans .

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​⁉️ How high can you go without oxygen?

✅ We pass out when the pressure drops below 57 percent of atmospheric pressure — equivalent to that at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,572 meters). Climbers can push higher because they gradually acclimate their bodies to the drop in oxygen, but no one survives long without an oxygen tank above 26,000 feet (7925 m).

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​⁉️ When were hieroglyphics created as a written language?

✅ Archaeological discoveries suggest that Egyptian hieroglyphs may be the oldest form of writing. The earliest evidence of an Egyptian hieroglyphic system is believed to be from about 3300 or 3200 BC, and the Egyptians used hieroglyphs for the next 3,500 years.

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​⁉️ How big is the Great Canyon?

✅ The Grand Canyon is indeed a very big hole in the ground. It is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and more than a mile (6,000 feet / 1,800 meters) deep. It is the result of constant erosion by the Colorado River over millions of years.

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​⁉️ Who completed the first circumnavigation of the world?

✅ The Spanish Magellan-Elcano expedition of August 1519 to 8 September 1522, started by Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) and completed by Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano after Magellan's death, was the first global circumnavigation.

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​⁉️ Do women have an Adam's apple?

✅ The Adam's apple is actually caused by the bulging of a set of cartilage plates that are held together by tissues and muscle fibers, which protect the vocal cords. Women have these plates, too, but the bulge is more prominent in men for two reasons: Testosterone causes the larynx to grow rapidly during puberty,

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​⁉️ How high is the top of the atmosphere?

✅ Earth's atmosphere is about 300 miles (480 kilometers) thick, but most of it is within 10 miles (16 km) the surface. Air pressure decreases with altitude. At sea level, air pressure is about 14.7 pounds per square inch (1 kilogram per square centimeter).

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​⁉️ Do water and ice weigh the same?

✅ The ice cup will weigh the same as when it was in liquid form but the volume of ice in the cup will be larger than what it was in liquid form. This is because when ice crystallizes into its hexagonal structure the water molecules are farther apart than when they are in the liquid state.

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⁉️ What company invented the first Laser Printer?

✅ Unlike the company's Xerography process, however, Xerox had to share the laser printer market. IBM and Canon soon developed competing products. Xerox PARC Scanning Laser Output Terminal (SLOT) Gary Starkweather prototyped the first laser printer by modifying a standard Xerox office copier.

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⁉️ Q1 : which one is the smallest Ocean in the world ?
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d. Arctic – 225
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 83%

a. Indian – 23
👍 9%

b. Pacific – 11
▫️ 4%

c. Atlantic – 11
▫️ 4%

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​⁉️ Is White Light the absence of color?

✅ In the visible spectrum, white reflects light and is a presence of all colors, but black absorbs light and is an absence of color. Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced when no visible light reaches the eye.

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⁉️Q2 . Which continent has highest number of countries?
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a. Asia – 242
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 68%

c. Africa – 92
👍👍👍 26%

b. Europe – 20
👍 6%

d. North America – 2
▫️ 1%

👥 356 people voted so far.
​​⁉️ What country has the highest number of spoken languages in the world?

✅ Papua New Guinea has the highest number of spoken languages in the world. There are 820 indigenous languages spoken in this country. The official language is Tok Pisin, or New Guinea Pidgin, and is the most widely spoken language after English, a legacy of the colonial period.

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⁉️ Q3. In which country ' Suez Canal ' is located ?
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d. Egypt – 309
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c. Iran – 28
👍 8%

a. UAE – 15
▫️ 4%

b. Turkey – 8
▫️ 2%

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​⁉️ What is petrified wood?

✅ Petrified wood is a fossil in which the organic remains have been replaced by minerals in the slow process of being replaced with stone. This petrification process generally results in a Quartz Chalcedony mineralization.

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​⁉️ Are hippos mean?

✅ Crocodiles may be either aggressively displaced or killed by hippopotamuses. Hippos are also very aggressive towards humans, whom they commonly attack whether in boats or on land with no apparent provocation. They are widely considered to be one of the most dangerous large animals in Africa.

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​⁉️ How big is the London Eye?

✅ The London Eye holds 32 capsules (although it is possible to board capsule number 33 as number 13 has been skipped). Visits last for one rotation, which takes about 30 minutes, and during that time visitors rise to a peak height of 443ft (135m).

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​⁉️ What color is the hottest part of the fire?

✅ The inner core of the candle flame is light blue, with a temperature of around 1670 K (1400 °C). That is the hottest part of the flame. The color inside the flame becomes yellow, orange, and finally red.

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​⁉️ Can O positive blood be given to anyone?

✅ Type A- can donate to A-, A+, AB+, AB- Type B+ can donate to B+, AB+ Type B- can donate to B-, B+, AB-, AB+ Type AB+ can donate to AB+ Type AB- can donate to AB-, AB+ Type O+ can donate to O+, A+, B+, AB+ Type O- can donate to all types.

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