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Hollywood located:

Country: United States

State: California

County: Los Angeles County

City: Los Angeles

Incorporated: 1903

Merged with Los Angeles: 1910

Harvey Henderson Wilcox owned a ranch west of the city of Los Angeles, which his wife Daeida named Hollywood, and that they founded together in 1887

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Gases and particles in Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions.

Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves.

This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

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• Ostrich is the largest living bird in the world.
• An adult ostrich weighs up to 150 kilograms and has a maximum height of 6 feet.
• They also held the record for the fastest speed of any bird in the land and largest egg of any living birds.
• The flightless ostriches are native to Africa.
  
• Ostriches mainly feed on seeds, shrubs, fruits, flowers and small insects.
• Ostriches can also live without water for several days.
• The powerful long legs help ostriches for attacking predators.
• Ostriches usually live in groups that contain 10 to 50 birds.
• A female ostrich lays up to 60 eggs in a year.  an ostrich egg measures 5.1 inches in diameter and up to 1.4 kg in weight.

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World Bank established during: Bretton Woods Conference

World Bank Members: 189

World Bank aim: to provide loans and grants for various projects

World Bank headquarters: Washington, USA

Human Capital Index & World Development Report are published: World Bank

Word Bank Partner institutions: IBRO, IDA, IFC, MIGA, ICSID (total five institutions)

Pakistan joined World Bank: 1950

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The first use of paper currency can be traced back to the year 806 AD in China.

where they were used as “flying currency” because of the usage of letters of credit transferred over large distances.

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A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4.

The Solar year is 365.2422 days long, a length which no calendar year can accommodate.

Generally, a leap year happens every four years

The next leap day will be on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

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Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms; they carry out decomposition, a process possible by only certain kingdoms, such as fungi.

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It authorizes the release of $1.5 billion per year to the Government of Pakistan as non-military aid from the period of 2010 to 2014.

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The Golden Triangle is the area where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers.