If you've ever been to a synagogue, you'll know that they're generally quite simple and austere places of worship. But not Budapest's Great Synagogue. This Jewish temple on Dohány Street is tall and majestic, with one of the largest and most impressive cathedral naves I've ever seen. It is one of Europe's most beautiful synagogues. The Great Jewish Synagogue, built between 1854 and 1859, seats 3000 people. It is Europe's largest synagogue and the world's second-largest (after Belz Great Synagogue, in Jerusalem).

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These jelly-like, slimy animals are a sight to behold, pulsing through the ocean currents, and can be found in water both warm and cold, shallow and deep, and even along coastlines. The species comes in a variety of brilliant colours and is bioluminescent, which means it can generate its own light.

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1 THB coin - Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha, inside The Grand Palace)
2 THB coin - Wat Saket (Temple on the Mount)
5 THB coin - Wat Benjamabophit (The Marble Temple)
10 THB coin - Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn)

Lions prefer hunting at night as they have eyes that are adapted to the dark. And these features give them a great advantage over their prey. Lions also prefer hunting during the storms as the noise and wind make it harder for the prey to hear or see them, and hence they can easily attack them. A great strategy, isn't it?

Snacking on that yummy leftover just before bed may not be a good idea if you want to sleep well and peacefully. According to this study, eating close to bedtime might have a detrimental impact on sleep efficiency, particularly in women. Furthermore, another study shows that ingesting dairy products before bedtime is more likely to result in unsettling and unusual dreams than other forms of food.

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There are several historic bridges, while others are decorated with bright flowers or lit up at night. You can even see 15 bridges at once, by crossing the Reguliersgracht and Herengracht bridges.

There are 22 recognized languages, with Hindi and English serving as the official languages. Other widely spoken languages include Bengali (the second most spoken language), Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, and Punjabi. There are up to 19,500 recognized languages and dialects in the nation. With 310 million native speakers (4.5 percent of the world's population), Hindi is the fourth most spoken language in the world. Bengali is the world's seventh most spoken language, and Punjabi is the world's tenth most spoken language.

The Last Supper, another masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, is a late 15th-century mural painting depicting Jesus' last supper with his apostles. He created the artwork between 1495 and 1496 with the intention of depicting the exact moment after Jesus reveals that one of his friends will betray him.Specifically, the apostles' expressions of rage and shock. Despite being one of the world's largest and most famous paintings, you won't be able to see it in a museum. It has a permanent residence in a convent in Milan, Italy.

There are a few arachnids in the world that cause some nasty spider bites, which can cause some risky complications to your health due to their venom. The majority of spiders in the UK will not bite people, and if they do, their venom is ineffective. Unfortunately, and I hate to say it, being bitten by a spider will not transform you into Spider-Man! That is not a side effect of their venom. If that were the case, I'd be web-slinging around Surrey's streets instead of writing this blog!

According to archaeologists, the function originally appeared in Ancient Egypt. The Berlin State Museum displays a sample recovered from a temple near Abusir's Sahure pyramid. Because the copper pipe is still in good shape, it demonstrates how durable copper is as a piping material. What makes it even more intriguing is that the remainder of the temple is currently in disrepair.

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Your life, like that of a chicken, began with an egg. It's not a big egg in a shell, but it's an egg nonetheless. There is, however, a significant difference between a human egg and a chicken egg that has an unexpected effect on your age. Human eggs are extremely small. They are, after all, only a single cell that is typically 0.2mm across – roughly the size of a printed full stop. Your egg was formed in your mother, but it was formed when she was an embryo. The formation of your egg, as well as half of your DNA from your mother, could be considered the very first moment of your existence. And it occurred prior to the birth of your mother. If your mother was 30 when you were born, you would have been over

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Barbie's official birthday commemorates her first public appearance at the American International Toy Fair in New York in 1959. In her black and white striped one-piece, she stood 11 inches tall and was dressed for a pool party. Barbie was instantly recognizable as the only toy in the doll aisle that wasn't modelled after a baby or a small child—having an adult woman as a plaything for children was a novel concept. One thing she lacked at first? A navel button. That was added to her design in 2000, more than 40 years later.

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