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  1.  Afghanistan is a  landlocked country .  Iran ,  Pakistan ,  Uzbekistan , Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and  China  border Afghanistan from all sides. 2. The  people of Afghanistan  are called Afghans and their currency is Afghanis. Most of the time, people get confused between the use of these two terms. 3. Agriculture is the  main source of income  for Afghans. Afghanistan is also rich in natural resources like natural gas and oil. 4.  “Buzkashi” is Afghanistan’s  national game . Players in two teams try to catch a goat while riding a horse. This game is being played for centuries and is a tough sport. 5. Afghanistan  became independent  on August 19, 1919. They fought three wars with Britain after which they declared themselves independent. They were not directly ruled by the British but their foreign affairs were influenced by the United Kingdom. 6.  Afghanistan  has been in news  more ...

  1) Kutabi – filled pancakes – are practically Azerbaijan’s national dish. They’re stuffed with pumpkin, veggies, meat or just a sprinkling of herbs, then flipped and toasted on a griddle. Leave your Nutella at home: Azerbaijan’s pancakes are strictly savoury 2) In the lowest reaches of Azokh Cave in western Azerbaijan, archaeologists have found tools and remains dating back 1.5 million years. The six chambers of the cave complex hold a bounty of prehistoric remains, and it’s thought that the caverns were occupied for nearly two million years. 3) No social occasion is complete without tea, served with myriad trimmings. It’s often sweetened with jam – and flavoured with thyme, lemon, mint or rosewater. 4) The karabakh horse – renowned for its effortless speed, intelligence and endurance – is the national animal of Azerbaijan. They are endemic to the country, and one of the oldest breeds in the world. 6) It’s roughly the same size as neighbouring Armenia and Georgia, but is dwa...

  1)  Depending on your beats per minute, your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. That means it sends 2,000 gallons of blood through the body. 2)The highest blood flow isn’t in your heart, liver, or brain — it’s in your kidneys. That’s because kidneys are the body’s natural filtration system. 3) Healthy lungs look pink and rubbery on the outside. The more you smoke though, the more tarry and black they become. This can have a serious effect on quality of life, and can even cause bubbles (called blebs) rupturing in your lungs (a condition called spontaneous pneumothorax) 4) 12% of people dream in black and white. What’s weirder is that human beings used to sleep and dream in black and white even more before color tv (~15%). The average person still dreams in color, but it’s interesting to see how the human brain is susceptible to media. 5) Though people have small blood vessels, the networking is amazingly long. If they were laid out they would measure more than 60,000 mile...

  SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit on September 15 REUTERS   SEP 13, 2021 / 02:17 PM IST           Jared Isaacman, the American founder and chief executive of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip from blastoff at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to splashdown in the Atlantic. The SpaceX flight is designed to carry its four passengers where no all-civilian crew has gone before, into Earth orbit. Yet another billionaire entrepreneur is set to ride into space this week, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocketship as part of an astro-tourist team poised to make history as the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit. Jared Isaacman, the American founder and chief executive of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip from blastoff at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to splashdown in the Atlantic. The 38-year-old tech mo...