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Cities with the worst traffic in the world:
1. Lagos 🇳🇬
2. Los Angeles 🇺🇸
3. San Jose 🇨🇷
4. Colombo 🇱🇰
5. Dhaka 🇧🇩
6. Delhi 🇮🇳
7. Sharjah 🇦🇪
8. Kolkata 🇮🇳
9. Guatemala City 🇬🇹
10. Mumbai 🇮🇳
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11. Mexico City 🇲🇽
13. San Francisco 🇺🇸
16. Bangalore 🇮🇳
17. Jakarta 🇮🇩
18. Cairo 🇪🇬
19. Istanbul 🇹🇷
20. São Paulo 🇧🇷
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Top 20 countries with the largest GDP in 2024:
1. 🇺🇲 USA: $28.7 trillion
2. 🇨🇳 China: 18.5 trillion
3. 🇩🇪 Germany: $4.59 trillion
4. 🇯🇵 Japan: $4.11 trillion
5. 🇮🇳 India: $3.93 trillion
6. 🇬🇧 UK: $3.49 trillion
7. 🇫🇷 France: $3.13 trillion
8. 🇧🇷 Brazil: $2.33 trillion
9. 🇮🇹 Italy: $2.32 trillion
10. 🇨🇦 Canada: $2.24 trillion
11. 🇷🇺 Russia: $2 trillion
12. 🇲🇽 Mexico: $2 trillion
13. 🇦🇺 Australia: $1.79 trillion
14. 🇰🇷 South Korea: $1.76 trillion
15. 🇪🇸 Spain: $1.64 trillion
16. 🇮🇩 Indonesia: $1.47 trillion
17. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: $1.14 trillion
18. 🇹🇷Turkey: $1.11 trillion
19. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: $1.10 trillion
20. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: $938 billion
According to the IMF, 2024
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When you’re done chopping green onions, place the stumps in a cup of water facing up. They’ll regrow in about 4 days, meaning you’ll never have to buy them at the grocery store again.
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Napoleon's escape from Elba
Forced to abdicate as French emperor in 1814, Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba this day in 1815 and, gathering support en route, retook power on his return to Paris on March 20, ushering in the Hundred Days.
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Wu Wei
(Chinese)
The art of Non- Action
To embrace flow instead of effort to achieve a result
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world’s oldest known work of art on an Indonesian Island called Sulawesi.
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matkakuume
/'matka'kume/ • Finnish
noun //:
the tangled feelings of anxiety and anticipation before the journey begins;
"travel fever"
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Contrary to the popular thinking, wolves are not dominated by an “Alpha Wolf” that is the most aggressive male, or male-female pairing, of the pack. Rather, they have found that wolf packs are similar to human families, and there is little aggression or fights for “dominance.”
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Top 15 Largest Religious Groups
1. ✝️ Christianity - 2.4B
2. ☪️ Islam - 1.8B
3. 🕉️ Hinduism - 1.2B
4. 🏯 Buddhism - 600M
5. ☯️ Taoism - 170M
6. ⛩️ Shinto - 65M
7. 🏹 Sikhism - 30M
8. ✡️ Judaism - 18M
9. 🦚 Jainism - 12M
10. 🌏 Bahá'í Faith - 7.9M
11. 📜 Confucianism - 6.1M
12. 🎋 Cao Đài - 3M
13. ☀️ Cheondoism - 3M
14. 🌿 Tenrikyo - 2M
15. 🔮 Wicca - 1M
Source: Wikipedia, CDA
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The Lazarus Group is a notorious cybercriminal organization, believed to be state-sponsored by North Korea. Active since at least 2009, they're known for high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak, and numerous financial heists targeting banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. Their activities fund the North Korean regime while showcasing advanced hacking techniques.
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Cloning of Dolly
On this day in 1997, a team of British scientists working under the direction of Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh announced the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal.
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Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X, who articulated concepts of racial pride and black nationalism in the United States, was assassinated this day in 1965 and became an ideological hero after the posthumous release of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”— The Usual Suspects (1995), Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
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Mike the Headless Chicken was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. After the beheading, Mike achieved national fame until his death in March 1947.
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The Haja-no-Ontachi is housed at the Isonokami Shrine in Nara. Known as the Demon-Quelling Great Sword, it measures approximately 15 feet (465 cm) in length and weighs 165 pounds (75 kg).
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In February 2016, hackers stole $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the New York Fed by sending fake SWIFT transfer requests, nearly nabbing $1 billion total. The money hit accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, with most of the Philippine haul vanishing into casinos, aided by lax security and suspected North Korean hackers. Only $18 million was recovered, exposing major flaws in global banking defenses.
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How long should you nap for? 🛌
10-20 minutes - To boost alertness, energy, and refresh yourself.
30 minutes - Never! This will leave you feeling extremely groggy.
60 minutes - To improve your fact, face, and name recognition.
90 minutes - To improve emotional, procedural memory and creativity.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
-Robin Williams (Dead Poets Society)
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If someone is having a heart attack, they will need to chew the aspirin and not just swallow it. It gets the aspirin into your bloodstream faster.
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In the UK in 2019, renewable energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time ever. Also, did you know Norway gets 0% electricity from coal? And Germany has installed 1 kW of renewable capacity per person in the last decade?
a) (Climate change is the biggest global issue of our time, but there are some things to feel positive about!)
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Ousting of Marcos in the Philippines
On this day in 1986, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, under pressure from the United States, fled his country for Hawaii after a fraudulent electoral victory over Corazon Aquino, who replaced him as president.
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Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, peppers, and eggplant are part of a family called nightshade foods, which contain a toxin called solanine. If ingested in large quantities can cause hallucinations.
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U.S. President Andrew Johnson impeached
On this day in 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 126–47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson, whose lenient Reconstruction policies regarding the South after the Civil War angered Radical Republicans in Congress.
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Doctors in Ancient Rome used an early form of electrotherapy to successfully treat neurological conditions such as epilepsy and migraines. They administered the charges by placing electric torpedo fish on the patient’s head
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dol•or •ous
/ doleras/ adjective
feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress.
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Adermatoglyphia is a disease where people are born without fingerprints. It is exceedingly rare, affecting only five known extended families worldwide
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The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.An average adult carries about 15–30 pounds of fat. Soap-making requires roughly 7 pounds of fat per batch (mixed with lye), meaning you’ve got the raw material for a small soap empire inside you. It’s a creepy yet oddly practical tidbit.
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The Greek name for the Mosquito is Anopheles, translating to “good-for-nothing.”
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The venom of giant hornets in Japan is potent enough to melt human flesh.
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After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it only 3 days for the trams to resume limited operations. 3 of the trams that survived the bomb are still in service to this day.
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