China uses one official time zone: China Standard Time (CST), 8 hours ahead of UTC, called Beijing Time. In Xinjiang, many Uyghurs use Xinjiang Time, 2 hours behind CST. China does not change clocks for Daylight Saving Time.

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The world’s largest living structure is the Great Barrier Reef, stretching over 2,300 kilometres along Australia’s coast. It is made of billions of tiny coral animals called polyps. The reef is home to thousands of marine species, including fish, turtles, sharks, and many organisms found nowhere else.
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The Denmark Strait is home to Earth’s largest waterfall, but it is completely underwater. It lies between Greenland and Iceland. Cold, dense water cascades roughly 3,500 metres down toward the ocean floor. This drop is more than three times the height of Niagara Falls. The flow happens because cold, salty water is denser than warmer water. As the dense water moves through the Denmark Strait, it sinks and flows downward along the ocean floor. Scientists describe this underwater feature as a cataract rather than a normal waterfall.
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Your brain can create a sense of déjà vu even when you have never experienced the situation before. One theory suggests it happens when the brain's systems for familiarity and memory briefly become out of sync. You may feel that a moment is familiar without being able to recall an actual previous experience. Brain studies suggest that déjà vu is linked to memory-processing regions, including areas of the temporal lobe.
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The Sahara Desert was not always a desert. Thousands of years ago, parts of it were covered by grasslands, lakes, and rivers. Ancient rock art found across the region shows people hunted animals such as giraffes and hippos there when the climate was much wetter.
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In 1875, Charles Darwin suspected two Saxifraga species, S. rotundifolia and S. umbrosa, might be carnivorous after seeing sticky hairs trap insects. Scientists could not prove it then. In 2026,on the 4th of August, researchers confirmed a different species, S. candelabrum, is carnivorous. It grows on nutrient-poor mountain rocks in China, where sticky hairs trap insects and digestive enzymes break them down, allowing the plant to absorb nutrients. 🌿

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In 2007, the internet community r/place was created by Reddit as a massive collaborative digital canvas. Millions of users could place just one colored pixel every few minutes, forcing strangers to cooperate to create detailed artwork, national flags, memes, and tributes. The experiment became one of the largest examples of online collaboration, showing how thousands of independent users could organize without central leadership.
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The “husband stitch” is a term for an extra stitch sometimes placed during the repair of a vaginal tear or episiotomy after childbirth.

The stitch was supposedly intended to make the vaginal opening tighter for the husband’s sexual pleasure.

The term can be traced back to at least 1885, when a Texas doctor described adding an extra stitch at a husband’s request.

The practice is not medically necessary and can cause pain, scarring, and other complications.

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Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, died in Alexandria in 30 BC at age 39, shortly after Mark Antony died by suicide. Her death is traditionally dated to August 12, 30 BC, although some historians argue for August 10. Ancient writers disagreed about how she died: Plutarch described a possible snakebite, while other accounts suggested poison delivered by an object or applied as an ointment. No surviving evidence proves that an asp killed her. Her death ended the Ptolemaic dynasty and brought Egypt under Roman rule.
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The Amazon rainforest creates its own weather system. Trees release huge amounts of water vapour through a process called transpiration. This moisture forms clouds and transports rainfall across the region, with the forest acting like a giant natural water pump.
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Erotophobia is the fear of or strong negative attitudes about sex and sexuality. The word comes from Eros, the Greek god of love, and phobos, meaning fear.
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