Without mentioning the city's diverse population, no list of interesting facts about New York is complete. The city's residents speak roughly 800 different languages collectively. Almost half of New York households speak more than one language, and one-third were born outside of the country. And, because New York has the most people of any city in the United States, one in every 38 people in the country is a New Yorker.

You've most likely heard of Santorini, Mykonos, and Crete... But did you know that Greece has dozens of more gorgeous islands? Greece is thought to have up to 6,000 islands and islets, with just about 200 of them inhabited.

Hinduism, or Hindu dharma as it is known in India, is not the official name of this religion. Santana Dharma, which means the Eternal Way of Salvation, is its full name. Hindu or Indu is derived from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which means a large body of water or a river. The Greeks referred to the people who lived along the Indus River as Hindus.

Yes, you read that correctly. Bacteriophage bacteria can be found in the holy river Ganga. It infects and kills other harmful bacteria that have infiltrated the river. That is why, even if stored for an extended period of time, river Ganga water does not spoil. According to D.S. Bhargava, an environmental engineer at the University of Roorkee, the Ganga is the only river in the world that decomposes organic wastes 15 to 20 times faster than any other river.

Contrary to common opinion, the Eiffel Tower is not Paris' most visited landmark! The Eiffel Tower is the fourth most valuable structure in Paris. The Notre-Dame Cathedral comes in top, followed by the Sacré-Coeur Basilica and the Louvre Museum. When in Paris, make sure to visit them all!

The Louvre is the world's biggest art gallery and museum, housing over 38,000 works of art, including the most renowned painting ever created, the Mona Lisa. The Louvre received 10.8 million visitors in 2018, making it the most visited gallery on the globe!

Uzbekistan is a landlocked country on two fronts. Only two such countries exist in the world, the other being Liechtenstein in Europe. To reach any coastline from Uzbekistan, at least two nations must be crossed. Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and Kyrgyzstan border Uzbekistan, and all of these nations are landlocked.

Many religions around the world observe a winter solstice festival, such as Christmas or Yuletide. Lohri, the Indian equivalent, occurs later due to seasonal differences in the origin country.

Lohri is said to fall on the season's last truly cold day, after which the days will lengthen and warm as the season progresses into Spring. It is not to be confused with Holi, which takes place at the end of Spring and the beginning of Summer, or with Basant Panchmi, which takes place at the beginning of Spring.

Though those who live in rural areas of northern India and work in agricultural fields are likely to be aware of the significance, those who live in southern India and in urban areas may be unaware. In the days leading up to Lohri, the winter crop (traditionally Rabi) is harvested, and everyone involved in the harvest gathers around large bonfires to socialise and celebrate the harvest on the festival day.

The new fiscal year also begins on the day after Lohri, which is known as Maghi. It actually signals the end of the winter season and the start of the new farming season. Since the nineteenth century, revenue from winter crops has been collected during the month of January. Sugarcane harvesting, which is celebrated during the Lohri festival, produces a variety of by-products such as gur and gazak, which are widely consumed during the festival.

Lohri is considered a symbol of new beginnings. It is thought that the words til and rorhi merged to form tilorhi, which was then shortened to Lohri. People in India celebrate the festival with zeal and zeal, and they thank the sun god for the abundance of farm harvests the previous year.

Libyan tea is thick because it is made with a lot of tea leaves and a lot of sugar. It is mostly made by women. The tea boils for 20 to 30 minutes after the two components are combined and a suitable amount of water is added. When the tea is done, it's served in little pyrex glasses with sumak and khobza, two popular Libyan snacks.

With a height of 7,434 feet, Bette Peak is Libya's tallest peak. The mountain, also known as Bikku Bitti, is located in southern Libya, near the Chadian-Libyan border. Ginge Fullen and his Chadian guides made the first reported ascent of the Bette Peak in December 2005. Despite this, the mountain's remote position makes access difficult and infrequent.

Cyrene, now known as Shahhat, was formerly part of the Greek kingdom that ruled Libya hundreds of years ago. It was a significant Greek city since it was the epicentre of philosophical instruction. Cyrene is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is one of the country's oldest cities.

Muammar Gaddafi took power in Libya in 1969 and reigned for 42 years. As a result, he became one of Africa's and the world's longest-serving leaders of state. Gaddafi was well-known for being a despotic ruler. He did, however, serve his country well by increasing health care to the point that it was among the finest in Africa. He also boosted Libya's literacy rate from 25 percent to 87 percent during his tenure. When he was removed from power in 2011, his reign came to an end. The militia hunted him down and murdered him in his hometown, where he had sought safety. Gaddafi's net worth was $200 billion at the time of his death.

Libya imports the majority of the food it consumes due to its inability to produce it locally. Because the nation is located within the vast Sahara desert, it receives extremely little precipitation. It also has weak soil and a harsh climate, both of which hinder food production. The financing of the Great Manmade River Project, which was designed to irrigate farmed fields, was a major attempt by former Libyan President Gaddafi to reverse the situation. This project ended up becoming the largest irrigation project in the world. It consists of a 1750-mile subterranean water pipe network. Libya's people, meanwhile, continue to rely on imported food to survive.

King Idris I was the first and last ruler of Libya. Born into the Senussi order, he was both a political and religious leader. Before becoming King of Libya in 1951 with the end of colonial control, King Idris I served as the Emir of Cyrenaica. Because of his conservatism, the king's rule was unpopular. Colonel Gaddafi, who eventually replaced King Idris I, was toppled in a coup orchestrated by Colonel Gaddafi in 1969.

The eastern and northern sections of the Sahara Desert make up the Libyan Desert. In an ideal world, it would be a section of the Sahara Desert in Libya. The Libyan Desert is noted for being the Sahara's harshest, driest, and most isolated area. With daytime temperatures reaching 50 degrees Celsius, this area might spend decades without rain.

Libya was divided into three regions: Fezzan was in the southwest, Cyrenaica was in the east, and Tripolitania was in the northern. The nation is now divided into three administrative areas, each of which has 22 districts (called shabiyat).

Libya's discovery of oil in the 1950s marked a significant improvement for the country, which had previously been one of the poorest in the world. The country's annual oil output peaked at 1.65 million barrels per day in 2010. Oil and petroleum products account for the majority of the country's exports and government revenue today. It is also one among Africa's 15 most prosperous economies, including South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, and Cameroon, among others. Nonetheless, the country's unpredictable political situation has caused worldwide oil price changes in recent years.

Venetia Burney suggested the name Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld after her grandpa informed her about the newly found planet. Pluto the planet, like the God, sat in the furthest ends of the solar system, thus it felt appropriate. Her grandpa was taken with the name and proposed it to a friend, who happened to be an Oxford University astronomy professor. Pluto piqued the interest of astronomers since the first two letters of the name are Percival Lowell's initials.

Temperatures on the Sun's surface reach 6,000 Kelvin. However, this is far less than the atmosphere of the Sun. The chromosphere is a region of the atmosphere located above the Sun's surface, with temperatures reaching 100,000 K. That, however, is insignificant. The corona, which extends to a volume larger than the Sun itself, is an even more distant region. The corona can reach temperatures of one million degrees Celsius.

The Sun, unlike the planets, is a massive sphere of hydrogen gas. As a result, different parts of the Sun rotate at different rates. Tracking the movement of sunspots across the surface allows you to see how fast the surface rotates. It takes 25 days for regions near the equator to complete one rotation, while features near the poles can take 36 days. And it appears that the inside of the Sun takes about 27 days.

The Sun appears to be a burning ball of fire, but it has an internal structure. The visible surface is known as the photosphere, and it heats up to approximately 6,000 degrees Kelvin. The convective zone lies beneath that, where heat slowly moves from the inner Sun to the surface and cooled material falls back down in columns. This region begins at 70% of the radius of the Sun. The radiative zone lies beneath the convection zone. Heat can only travel through radiation in this zone. The Sun's core extends from the Sun's centre to a distance of 0.2 solar radii. Temperatures reach 13.6 million degrees Kelvin here, and hydrogen molecules fuse to form helium.