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Month: November 2023

Monkey Lives Two years With Pig Kidney

In a successful scientific experiment, a monkey has survived two years after a pig’s kidney was put inside it. This could solve the problem of human organ short-age. Sometimes people’s organs, like kidney and liver, do not work properly and they need new ones to live.

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However, there are not enough organ donors. Scientists have used animal organs in humans before but the human body rejected these animal organs. Scientists have discovered that these animal organs are rejected by the human body because our immune system treats these animal organs like a bacteria or virus.

Prior to the transplant in the monkey, the scientists removed the unwanted genes from the pig. This made the pig accept the kidney without any troubles. Scientists think that modified pig organs will work better for humans, because they are a better match. The kidney of an adult pig is around the same size as that of an adult human.

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Ayodhya Creates a New Guinness World record owned

On the eve of Diwali, Ayodhya celebrated Deepotsav by illuminating 22.23 lakh divas across 51 ghats on the banks of Saryu River to create a new Guinness World Record.

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The record is for lighting up the highest number of lamps in a single place globally. The 22.23 lakh diyas, 6.47 lakh more than last year, were lit by 25,000 volunteers at the ghats. The representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records counted the lamps using drones. The Deepotsav tradition started in Ayod-hya in 2017, when 51,000 diyas were lit. Each successive year the number has only increased.

Did You Know?

In 2022, Ayodhya had set the Guinness World Record record by illuminating 15,76,955 diyas during Deepostav.

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World’s Biggest LEGO Store Is Open

A New lego store in Sydney, Australia has officially opened LEGO its doors. It is the world’s largest lego store and is over 900 square metres. Prior to the opening of this Australian store, Lon-don’s Leicester Square Lego Store was the biggest in the world ?

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Did You Know?

LEGO was invented in Billund, Denmark by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1949.

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World’s First Junk Food Law

Columbia recently passed a new law putting tax on ultra-processed foods. The ‘junk food law’, is the first of its kind in the world. It is reported that ultra-processed foods with high added sugars, salt, and saturated fats, including sausages, cereals, jellies and jams, purees, sauces, condiments and seasoning, will be taxed. 

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According to reports “an additional tax on affected foods will begin at 10% immediate-ly, rising to 15% next year and reaching 20% in 2025”. Colombia is also introducing compulsory health warnings on foods with high content of unhealthy ingredients, such as sugar or saturated fat.

What do you think, should India also introduce an additional tax on junk food?

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Send Your Name To Space

NASA is asking people to send in their names so they can be blasted off on a space mission, deep into our galaxy. The ‘Message in a Bottle’ campaign wants to give people the chance to have their name sten-cilled onto a microchip which will ride on the Europa Clipper space-craft, past Mars, and all the way to Jupiter and its moon, Europa. So far, about 700,000 names have been submitted and the deadline is December 31, 2023.

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You can do so on: https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/.

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