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Reserve Bank of India to penalize Banks for non-availability of cash in ATM's from October 1. Cash out at any ATM of more than 10 hours in a month will attract a flat penalty of Rs.10,000 per ATM.  

Elon Musk's SpaceX is all set to launch Billboard satellite that plays advertisements. The cost for these advertisements is not yet known.  

YouTube creators can earn upto Rs.7.4 lakhs per month by creating YouTube shorts YouTube is all set to pay upto $10,000 per month to creators creating and sharing YouTube shorts on the video hosting platform.  

According to a recent survey, the sloppy handwriting of doctors kill more than 7,000 people every year.  

1 kilogram of Uranium-235 can produce the same amount of energy as 3 million kilograms of coal.  

Vedic maths originated in India.  

Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.  

Women live longer than men partly because their immune system age more slowly.  

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world at 0.08988g/cc Atomic weight - 1.008 Ionization energy - 13.60 eV  

A cockroach can live several weeks with it's head cut off.  

Li Ching-Yuen, a Chinese herbalist and martial artist who allegedly lived for 197-256 years. Their government has an official document of congratulating him on his 150th birthday.  

The world's oldest dress was found in Egypt and is 5000 years old.  

The Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening over the past 180 years, specially around Brazil and Argentina.

Carolina Reaper is officially considered to be the hottest chilli pepper in the world. It measures 2,200,000 SHU, a measure used to calculate spiciness. Pepper X is two times as hot as the Carolina Reaper, which would make it the hottest pepper in the world with a Scoville scale of 3.18 million units, but this remains unconfirmed by Guinness World Records as of 2021. But Carolina Reaper is officially confirmed with a Guinness-submitted 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (previously submitted as 1,569,383 SHU average and recently measured peak levels of over 2,200,000 SHU). Until Pepper X is officially confirmed, Carolina Reaper will be the hottest chilli pepper in the world.  

India is the largest producer of Mangoes in the world.  

The dot over the alphabets i and j is known as 'TITTLE'.  

In Japan, people do not have signatures, they use stamps called HANKO and every individual in Japan has one.  

According to scientist and photographer Dr. Roger Clark, the resolution of the human eye is 576 Megapixels.  

World’s first 3D-printed stainless steel bridge has been inaugurated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for pedestrians and cyclist over the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal. It is 12-metre long and is designed by Joris Laarman Lab and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D. It is fabricated from stainless steel rods by 6-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear. It is fitted with a network of sensors that allows the bridge to monitor strain, movement, vibration and temperature.  

The Golden rice has been developed by the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) in partnership with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), after spending nearly two decades. It is named Golden Rice due to its bright yellow colour. A cup of golden rice can give as much as 40 per cent of vitamin A which is very essential for children aged six months to five years, to combat childhood blindness and save lives in the developing world. It is also the first genetically modified rice approved for commercial propagation in South and Southeast Asia.  

A severe coronavirus infection, involving hospitalisation and ventilator support, has a substantial impact on a recovered patient's intelligence as part of wider "Long-COVID" symptoms.  

  The herbarium at the Natural History Museum in London is one of the world’s biggest plant collections. Specimens gathered over more than 300 years were dried and then glued to paper in large albums, each one now housed in its own drawer in a climate-controlled chamber.

  The Chipko movement or chipko andolan, was a forest conservation movement in India. It began in 1973 in Uttarakhand, then a part of Uttar Pradesh and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in India.

Puri becomes the first Indian city to have 'drink-from-tap' facility. The city now has safe water that can be used directly from tap for cooking and drinking, without requiring further filtration. Odisha's Puri has become the first city in the state to have 'drink-from-tap' facility.