India celebrates Independence Day every year on 15 August, marking independence from British rule in 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru became independent India’s first Prime Minister and raised the national flag at the Red Fort on 15 August 1947.
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Conjoined twins are identical twins who are physically connected at birth.

They develop when a single fertilized egg begins to divide into two embryos, but the separation is incomplete.

The twins may be connected at the chest, abdomen, pelvis, back, or skull, and some may share organs or blood vessels.

Their anatomy can be examined using medical imaging, and separation surgery is possible in some cases, depending on the organs and blood vessels they share.

“Siamese twins” is an older term for conjoined twins and is not the preferred medical term today.

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The world is becoming less democratic. 45 countries were autocratizing in 2025. Autocracy means rule with limited public political power. Examples include Indonesia, Mali and Mexico. The United States also saw a decline in its democracy score, though it fell just short of the threshold for being classified as autocratizing.

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Myth: Glass flows over time, making old windows thicker at the bottom.
Fact: Glass is an amorphous solid, meaning its atoms are arranged randomly, not in a pattern like crystals. It stays solid at all normal temperatures and only softens above 600°C (1112°F). Old windows are thicker at the bottom because of how they were made, not because glass moves.

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Cats can hear ultrasonic sounds that humans cannot hear. Their hearing can reach about 64–65 kHz, compared with about 45 kHz for dogs and 23 kHz for humans. Cats can therefore hear some high-frequency sounds that are beyond human hearing.
Like the opening of a can of tuna..

They also know very well when you call them,they often simply choose to ignore you.

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The gut and brain are closely connected. Research into the gut microbiome is exploring how trillions of microbes may influence brain function, mood and mental health. This could improve our understanding of conditions such as depression and anxiety and shape future treatments.

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Some fungi can be turned into leather-like materials.

The material is made from mycelium, the thread-like network that forms the main body of a fungus.

Mycelium can be grown into sheets, dried, and processed into materials used for bags, shoes, clothing, and other products.

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The smallest known mammal by mass is the bumblebee bat, also called Kitti’s hog-nosed bat. It weighs about 2 grams, roughly the same as a small paperclip. This tiny bat lives in limestone caves in Thailand and Myanmar and has a wingspan of only about 13 centimetres.
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A copy of Charles I’s 1649 death warrant is displayed in the Robing Room at the Palace of Westminster. Charles I had ruled without Parliament for 11 years before the English Civil War. He later fought Parliament’s forces and was tried for high treason. He was found guilty and beheaded on 30 January 1649. Some interpret the warrant’s display as a reminder of the limits of royal power, although this is not officially stated as its purpose.

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A lightning bolt can heat the air around it to about 30,000°C, making the air suddenly expand. This rapid expansion creates a shock wave that travels through the atmosphere as thunder. The temperature inside a lightning channel can be five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Even stranger, Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most planets. If you stood on Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.

It’s one of the strangest planetary rotations in our solar system. 🪐

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The German 🇩🇪 language has a unique letter that’s not used in any other language, the ß, called "Eszett" which is pronounced like a double-s.

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Oranges are not always naturally orange. In some places, they stay green even when ripe because of the weather. To make them look orange, farmers use either a safe red dye called Citrus Red No. 2 or treat the fruit with ethylene gas, which helps the skin change color faster.

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More than 8,000 metres beneath the ocean’s surface, a remarkable fish lives in the darkness of the Mariana Trench.

Known as the Mariana snailfish, it has been recorded at depths where the pressure is more than 800 times greater than at sea level.

With no sunlight, near-freezing temperatures, and crushing pressure, this tiny fish is specially adapted to survive in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. 🐟

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