Surgery is used to treat hernias. And mesh is typically used during surgery, which frequently raises questions from my patients. I explain to them that the mesh is not in contact with their internal organs because it is positioned outside of the belly cavity. The goal of the mesh is to encourage the growth of scar tissue within the mesh so that it forms a reinforcing layer over the weakest area.

Popcorn has long been linked with the cinema, or more recently, the microwave, but while many of us may have questioned why popcorn pops, few of us have inquired where popcorn comes from. Thousands of years ago, the ancient peoples of the Americas cultivated the variety of maize that produces popcorn. Popcorn relics going back 6.700 years have been unearthed in Peru. So, the next time you grab a handful of your favourite food, remember to thank someone other than Orville Redenbacher.

The national football team of Qatar automatically qualified for the 2022 World Cup as the host nation. They are participating in the FIFA World Cup for the first time. However, they were defeated by Ecuador in their opening game.

Consuming grapefruit may enhance the quality of your diet and increase your consumption of vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, and dietary fiber, according to research.

The Kung Fu nuns dress up in pyjamas and yellow sashes to sing for you when you visit the Drukpa monastery. This is a 2,000-year-old custom among them. They also offer a variety of events, one of which is the Eco Pad Yatra, which involves picking up rubbish and educating villagers about the environment across a distance of 400 miles on foot.

It might come to you as a matter of surprise, but kakapo, the world’s largest parrot, can not fly. Kakapo can grow up to two feet and can weigh up to nine pounds. Kakapo is the only flightless parrot in the world. But that’s not the only interesting fact about the world’s largest parrot. Kakapo is also the only parrot that is active at night.

Hong Kong's skyline is always a sight to behold, with over 8,000 sparkling buildings. A skyscraper is defined as any structure with more than 14 stories, and Hong Kong has twice as many as New York City. With 118 stories, the International Commerce Centre (ICC) building is now Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper.

 Rorschach invented the inkblot test, which consisted of ten splotchy cards, to detect mental disease. According to Damion Searls, author of The Inkblots, a history of Rorschach and his invention, no surviving memoranda or notes reveal Rorschach's technique for making the cards or what data or sources he may have utilized to create them. According to Searls, Rorschach subsequently stated simply that "empirical observations" guided the blots and that he had "no explanation for why the test functioned at all."

An enormous number of visitors from all around the world attend the annual Kolkata International Book Fair. The book fair is the nirvana that book enthusiasts around the world have been waiting for, with little magazine stands and foreign bookstores.

We'll look through cricket in further detail. A century is an innings in which one batter runs a hundred runs without being hit. That is really difficult for me to achieve. Alastair Cook is the oldest player to reach the age of 38. But that is not the all-time record held by Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar retired in 2013 at the age of 100. Tendulkar is known as the "God of Cricket."

The only remaining monument of the 7 ancient wonders of the world is still standing in Egypt. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza, in El Giza, Egypt has stood the test of time. The Pyramids of Giza are located in the capital city of Cairo and are as awe-inspiring as they always have been. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the largest of all the pyramids and it was built to house the Pharoah Khufu in the fourth century. Today is known as the pyramid of Cheops. You cannot miss visiting the pyramids when you travel to Cairo, they can be seen from all over the city. The Pyramid of Khufu is massive standing at a height of 146.7 meters (481 feet)

The Story of the Kelly Gang, an Australian film, was the world's first feature-length film. IMDB has information on the cast, box office, and budget. It lasted more than an hour, and the reel length was approximately 4,000 feet. To put that into perspective, a small 5-inch reel of film can hold up to 200 feet, a 6-inch can hold 300 feet, and a 7-inch can hold 400 feet. Depending on the size of the reel, that's at least 10 reels of 7-inch film and up to 20 reels of 5-inch film.

True. The Greeks of old would bring a cake with candles on it. To the temple of Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon stood in for the glistening moon. 
As each candle stood for a year that had passed, it wasn't until the 1700s that it started to become a birthday custom.

Building pyramids kept the Ancient Egyptians occupied! Over 130 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt so far, and archaeologists are continually searching for more!

Dolores Umbridge, the worst villain in the Harry Potter series, wound condemned to Azkaban after Order of the Phoenix. According to Pottermore, the reason was that she was involved in imprisoning, torturing, and even ordering the deaths of several innocent witches and wizards during the Second Wizarding War. Being the worst fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter, on the other hand, is a fairly good justification to be imprisoned in Azkaban on its own. Was she worse than him who shall not be named? Maybe not, but wizards and witches like this one were crucial to his machinations, so she's surely in the running for the worst of the wizarding worst.

All asteroids are categorised into numerous classes based on their chemical makeup and albedo. In a nutshell, there are three basic categories of asteroids: metal, silicon, and carbon. Carbon asteroids have very black surfaces. About 75% and 17% of all known asteroids fall within the first two groups.

It's strange to think of the founder of modern science dabbling in astrology. But two things should be kept in mind: First, historians warn us that judging historical events by today's standards is tricky. We all know that astrology is nonsense, yet astrology was only just beginning to separate from astronomy at the time of Galileo. Besides, Galileo was not wealthy: A professor who can teach astrological methods will be more in demand than one who cannot.

Midway through the 1840s, Charlotte came across some of Emily's poems and immediately saw their genius. She took the initiative to find a home for a book of poems she and her two sisters had collected. They used the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton (respectively Charlotte, Emily, and Anne), and they shared the pseudo surname Bell.

The biological cycling of nutrients in the Southern Ocean is significantly influenced by krill. For instance, krill migrate in swarms to deep water and then excrete their excrement, transporting significant amounts of that carbon to the ocean's depths after eating on algae that have absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide at the sea surface.

You are not required to write about your deepest fears or your most ardent crushes, as you did in middle school. Rather, keep track of when your migraines occur. Take note of when they began, what you were doing, what you ate and drank in the previous 24 hours, and your menstrual cycle, if you're a woman. This can assist you in determining your migraine triggers.

Normally, Mumbai's foodservice network, known as dabbawallahs, distributes over 200,000 lunch boxes everyday from house to workplace by bike and rail. Unfortunately, the epidemic has had a significant impact on their services, with many students and workers opting to stay at home. Each participant receives the relevant tiffin box, which is filled with hot lunch made by their family, and the empty boxes are picked up and sent home in the afternoon. The Lunchbox, a 2013 film, is based on the phenomena.

Cashews are high in protein and important minerals such as copper, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. Sodium is also found in trace amounts. Vitamin C, vitamin B1 (thiamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B6, folate, vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), and vitamin K are also found in cashews (phylloquinone). Cashews also have a high oleic acid concentration (an omega-9 fatty acid that is also found in olive oil).

Due to the dramatic increase of educational institutions in Pune, it has become a national hub for education. It is no surprise that the city is known as the Oxford of the East because thousands of international students graduate from its esteemed universities.

Marie Curie made history in 1903 when she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre, and physicist Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity, being the first woman to do so. Her second Nobel Prize in chemistry, which she received in 1911, was even more historic: she became the first person to win the prize twice. She is also the first person in history to have received Nobel Prizes in two distinct fields.

Barbara Gordon's crippling was one of the most infamous scenes in the Batman saga. When Alan Moore had the idea, he asked DC's head, Len Wein, if it was okay. Wein is said to have said, "sure, go ahead," as if they didn't care about her. Moore later said in a 2006 interview that he wished DC had reined him in a little more on that.