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.

ETOPS, or extended twin operations, is a designation that indicates the amount of time a twin-engine plane can safely cruise with one engine out of commission. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner received 330-minute ETOPS certifications in 2014, indicating that it can operate safely on just one engine for more than five hours before landing.

Diamonds are thought to be one of the hardest natural materials known to man; according to researchers, a diamond is up to 58 times harder than anything found in nature. As a result, the only object or piece of equipment capable of cutting through a diamond would be another diamond.

The disorder affects people in multiple areas of their life – home, work, school, relationships, etc. But people don’t have to be captive to their ADHD. As Canadian comedian Rick Green once said of himself: "I used to suffer from ADHD. And now I just have it."

Dr. Smirnov makes the startling claim that probiotics will replace antibiotics as medical treatments in the twenty-first century. This is because, like antibiotics before them, their successful medical use will fundamentally alter how we think about illness.

Rowland Hill, a schoolteacher from Birmingham, devised the postage stamp in 1839. He went on to construct Britain's first modern postal system.

A lizard may opt to separate their tail from their body as a last-ditch attempt to escape a predator. This is known as autonomy, and it is a left-over response from their wild counterparts, who may use it to escape. This reflex is still present today and is frequently noted by pet lizard owners in times of extreme stress. It can be found in a variety of species, including Bearded Dragons and a variety of Gecko species. If this happens to your pet, it could be a sign that an event or series of events has pushed their stress levels over the edge. Don't worry, your pet's tail will grow back in time!

World War I was a disaster on scales that most of us alive now cannot understand. What about this as an example? The total number of fatalities. France lost about 1,360,000 men during World War I. In comparison, the United States has reported around 1,350,000 military casualties in total throughout all wars since 1775.

Politically and geographically, it is one of India's top 10 earthquake-prone regions. It is located close to the seismically active Konya Dam, which is classed Zone 3 out of 5.

Piet de Goede, a Dutchman, raised the world's biggest beet in 2005, weighing 156 pounds. This incredible achievement was accomplished by de Goede, who had been cultivating vegetables for over 40 years, and was a testimonial to his knowledge of the industry. The beet was so massive that it made the Guinness Book of World Records.

Anovulatory (absence of egg release from the ovary) infertility occurs in almost 75% of PCOS patients. Most PCOS patients conceive either spontaneously or with treatment for egg release with either oral medications or injections. 

The original Beauty and the Beast fable was written in 1740 by French author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, and the beast was a horrible mix of an elephant and a fish. The story was designed to persuade girls to accept arranged marriages, "for an alliance that entailed effacing their own wants and surrendering to the will of a monster," according to children's literature expert Maria Tatar.

In actuality, centipedes are among the world's oldest animal species. Centipede fossils dating back more than 400 million years have been discovered! Over those millions of years, they changed into the centipedes we see today

If you thought cats spent a lot of their lives sleeping, you’d be right. According to Veterinary Hub, Cats actually spend 70% of their lives sleeping, which works out to around 13-16 hours a day. It’s a cat’s life!

Approximately 17 breakfast dishes originated here. If you enjoy breakfast, the South has many options for you. We counted more than 17 breakfast dishes that originated here, including the all-time favorites idly, dosa, uttapam, upma, and many others.

The average snowflake can be as small as a penny or as large as a human hair. However, some unconfirmed sources claim they can grow much larger. Witnesses to a snowstorm in Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887 reported seeing milk-pan-sized crystals fall from the sky. If this is correct, they would be the largest snowflakes ever seen, measuring about 15 inches across.

Blood type personality, or ketsueki-gata, is a Japanese belief that it's one's blood type that may determine aspects of their personality. According to Very Well Health, the pseudoscience can be traced back to 1930 when a professor named Tokeji Furukawa suggested the possibility that there could be a correlation between blood types and certain traits. People with A blood are thought to be creative and stubborn, for example, while those with O are confident and self-centered.

Cambodia's New Year's celebrations (known as Choul Chnam Thmey in Khmer) take place in mid-April each year, marking the conclusion of the traditional harvest season. This is Cambodia's greatest celebration of the year.

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?

Birmingham claims to be the genesis of the Heavy Metal music genre, which was influenced by the city's industrial backdrop. Pioneers include members of Black Sabbath, who grew up in the city working in factories, as well as Robert Plant of Led Zepellin, Judas Priest, Napalm Death, and others.

Although no one knows for certain, it appears that cricket started in the hands of shepherds as a simple method to pass the time while protecting a sheep. Our first impression of cricket was that the cricket balls were made of cotton and that the bowlers' speed was likely unattainable. Cricket has been recorded in English history since 1597, when in a dispute over land possession, he cited the game of "creckkett." However, it took over ten thousand years until the first formal cricket match was held in 1877.

Chisinau, occupied by the Red Army in June 1940, was devastated by a severe earthquake in October of that year, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale and destroying much of the city. As if that wasn't enough, the Luftwaffe arrived the next year and destroyed what was remained the city to smithereens.
 

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.

The first girls' school was established by Savitribai Phule and her friend Fatima Begum in 1848 at Bhide-Wada in Pune.