🧠 G·K Knowledge

🇳🇵 Nepal — must-know facts

• Nepal's flag is the only national flag in the world that is not rectangular — it's two stacked triangles.
• Eight of the world's ten highest peaks are in Nepal, including Mount Everest (8,848.86 m) — called Sagarmatha in Nepali.
• Nepal was never colonised by any country — a rare thing in Asia.
• The capital Kathmandu was once a lake, according to legend drained by Manjushri cutting the Chobar gorge.
• Nepal follows the Bikram Sambat calendar — about 56.7 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. New Year falls in mid-April.
• Lumbini in Nepal is the birthplace of Gautama Buddha.
• Nepal's time zone is UTC+5:45 — one of only three places in the world using a :45 offset.
• The living goddess Kumari is worshipped in Kathmandu — a real tradition found nowhere else.

🌍 World — quick facts

• The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean — bigger than all land combined.
• Venus is the hottest planet, not Mercury — its atmosphere traps heat.
• The Great Wall of China is over 21,000 km long including all its branches.
• Humans share about 60% of DNA with bananas.
• The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes (Britain vs Zanzibar, 1896).

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