What is Oceania ????

  Oceania is the vast geographic region spanning eastern and western hemisphere.

It covers regions across central and southern Pacific ocean.

It encompasses 14 independent countries alongside several overseas territories controlled by France, United States and United Kingdom 

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It is home to 45 million people !!!!!

It includes countries like   ---

1.  Micronesia 

2. Polynesia 

3.  Hawaii 

4.  Samoa 

5.  Tonga 

6.  Palau

7.  Kiribati 

8.   Martial Islands 

9.  Australia 

10.  New Zealand 

11.  Papua New Guinea 

12.  Fiji

13.  Solomon Islands 

14.  Vanautu 

15.   Federal States of Micronesia 

16.  Easter Island

Why do humans grow so slowly compared to other animals ??

Humans grow slowly because OUR MASSIVE, COMPLEX BRAIN

 REQUIRES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF ENERGY TO DEVELOPE  !!!

During childhood, brain consumes upto 50 - 60% of total metabolic energy.

Brain needs too much fuel to build neural networks.

Because of this, bodily growth is intentionally slowed down. !!!

For humans, long childhood provides necessary time to learn language, social rules and survival skills.

WHY ANIMALS GROW FASTER  ??

Most animals prioritize physical survival and reproduction over abstract intelligence.

For example,

Animals like horses and deers must run within hours of birth to escape predators. This forces rapid physical development over brain's  !!!

Thats why, human body simply can not afford to develop a large skeleton and a massive brain, at the same time  !!!

Hence our development is longer   !!!

Which is the rarest color on national flags ??

  Only two nations out of 196 nations in the world has this colour on their flags   !!!

The colour is     PURPLE .

Only Nicaragua anf Dominica are the nations which are using this colour on their flags.

Purple dye which is used to make purple colour is very costly. 

Purple dye is derived from a sea snail which is present in limited areas. 

Also, making purple dye is labour intensive and take more than 10000 sea snails to make one gram of dye  !!!

The cost of using purple dye on national flags is very high making it rarest colour on national flags .

Kids are always kids !!!

 FIFA worldcup has come to semifinal stage.  Yesterday me and my nephew Aniruddha was having a discussion about this.

Me  :  Aniruddha, FIFA worldcup has come to semifinal stage  !!!

Aniruddha  :  Yes. Out of 48 countries who were there in the beginning only 4 countries are remaining now.

Me :  You were very confident that Brazil is going to be tlhe champion this time.

            Alas !!! Brazil got knocked out in quarterfinals itself  !!!

Aniruddha : I was just hoping .... They were 5 times champions 

Me :  Anyway, whole scenario got changed.

         Now, who do you think could be the champions  ??

Aniruddha  :  No doubt, its England  !!!

Me  :  My bet is on France ....  I have hopes on Argentina too  !!!

Aniruddha  :   Argentina were last time champions...

                          I don't want Argentina to be the champions this time also   !!!

Me  :   What do you think about my choice ....??

Aniruddha  :  It must be England, otherwise Spain 

                         No other countries....

Me  :  But why England  ??

Aniruddha :  Long ago, England was champion.

                         I want atleast this time they become champion.

                          Same for Spain......

Me :   France became champions in 2018.

           According to your logic ,  France must get a chance.....

Aniruddha :  (  Realising that he was caught in his own words  )

                        I don't want to talk about that   !!!!

Phone call was disconnected ........!!!

Places in the world where lightning strikes most ??

  Almost every place listed below sits, where moist tropical air emconters either steep terrain or warm body of water or both. 

It makes the wind to converge over. Here are such places where lightning strikes more per year. 

1.  Lake Maracaibo  ,  Venezuela

2.  Kabare  , Democratic Republic of Congo

3.  Kampene, Democratic Republic of Congo

4.  Caceres  ,  Columbia

5.  Sake  , Democratic Republic of Congo

6.  Dagar,  Pakistan

7.  El Tarra,  Columbia

8.  Nguti  ,  Cameron

9.  Butembo,  Democratic Republic of Congo

10.  Boende  ,  Democratic Republic of Congo