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“I may speak the English Language better than the Chinese language, but I’ll never be an Englishman, not in a thousand generations.”
– Lee Kuan Yew (Founder of Singapore)
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Woodpeckers store nuts and seeds in the crevices of trees they created to prey on insect.
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World 1920 vs. World 1923:
🌍 Members:
1920: 78 Independent Nations
2023: 195 Countries
🗺️ Area:
1920: 148,940,431 in km²
2023: 148,940,298 in km²
👥 Population:
1920: 1.9 billion
2023: 8.1 billion
🏞️ Population density:
1920: 12.7 per km²
2023: 53.4 per km²
📈 Population growth rate:
1920: 1.8
2023: 1.05
👶 Fertility rate:
1920: 5.1
2023: 2.4
👫 Gender ratio (female/male):
1920: 1000/1051
2023: 990/1010
🌡️ Average temperature:
1920: 56.89 °F
2023: 57.00 °F
🌎 Largest country:
1920: British Empire (35,000,000+ km²)
2023: Russia (17,098,240 km²)
🌍 Most populated country:
1920: British Empire (458 million)
2023: India (1.43 billion)
🗣️ Most spoken language:
1920: Mandarin Chinese (474 million)
2023: English (1.2 billion)
🕍 Most followed religion:
1920: Christianity (690 million)
2023: Christianity (2.38 billion)
🌲 Forest area:
1920: 5,500,000,000 hectares
2023: 4,060,000,000 hectares
💰 GDP (nominal):
1920: $612 billion
2023: $212.6 trillion
💰 GDP per capita:
1920: $322
2023: $12,641
🏛️ Highest GDP country:
1920: US ($115 billion)
2023: US ($26.5 trillion)
💰 Richest country:
1920: Australia ($5,482)
2023: Liechtenstein ($180,000)
🏙️ Most density country:
1920: Netherlands (168/km²)
2023: Monaco (26,337/km²)
👶 Highest fertility rate country:
1920: Armenia (7.84 births per woman)
2023: Niger (6.91 births per woman)
👶 Lowest fertility rate country:
1920: Switzerland (2.37 births per woman)
2023: South Korea (0.9 births per woman)
💪 Most powerful country:
1920: British Empire
2023: United States
🏙️ Richest city by GDP:
1920: New York ($8 billion)
2023: Tokyo ($2.05 trillion)
🌆 Most populated city:
1920: New York (7.77 million)
2023: Tokyo (37.3 million)
🏟️ Largest stadium:
1920: Ohio Stadium (102,730)
2023: Narendra Modi Stadium (132,000)
🏢 Tallest building:
1920: Woolworth Building (241 meters)
2023: Burj Khalifa (828 meters)
🏭 Steel production (in metric tons):
1920: 58,908,006
2023: 158,500,000
💰 Richest person:
1920: Henry Ford ($1.2 billion)
2023: Elon Musk ($228 billion)
💵 Most valuable currency:
1920: Swiss Franc
2023: Kuwait Dinar
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In March 1919, the Daily Mirror newspaper published a cartoon by the English cartoonist and caricaturist, William Kerridge Haselden (1872-1953), predicting the invention - and some of the effects - of the 'pocket telephone.'
The cartoon was placed alongside other situations where this 'pocket telephone' might prove a personal annoyance and social nuisance: whether it be on a busy train, when you're in a hurry, at a concert, with babies, or even when you're at the altar.
It was not until 54 years later, in 1973, that the first handheld cellular mobile phone was demonstrated in public by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola.
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Amazing data visualization on ‘A Day in the Life of Americans'.
Credit @alexxubyte
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नीति तथा कार्यक्रम ल्याउने समय बदलिनु पर्छ, बनाउने तरिका बदलिनु पर्छ, यस भित्र रहने अन्तरवस्तु पनि बदलिनु पर्छ। नीति तथा कार्यक्रममा संसद भित्र हुने छलफललाई अझै पनि यसै गरी अघि बढाउने हो भने, तिनलाई लिएर संसद भित्र छलफल गर्नुको कुनै औचित्य रहँदैन।
सरकारलाई गर्नु भएन भनेको हैन, सँगै गरौँ भनेको हो। हामीले काम गर्ने तरिका बदलिनै पर्छ।
