Awesome facts: The Indian Navy was handed one of its most potent ...

Awesome facts: The Indian Navy was handed one of its most potent ...: The Indian Navy was handed one of its most potent warships today, the INS Kochi. The guided missile destroyer was commissioned by Defenc...

 The city of New York will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay.

In New York City there are more than 26,000 people living in each square mile.

Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries.

There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington 

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 It can cost over $289,000 for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park.

The Federal Reserve Bank on New York’s Wall Street contains vaults that are located 80 feet beneath the bank and hold about 25 percent of the world’s gold bullion.

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 There’s a man who mines sidewalk cracks for gold. He can make over $600 a week.

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 About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.

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 The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the fourth largest city in the United States. Queens would also rank fourth nationally.

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 New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.

What is ASTROSAT?
It's a satellite that we will use to remotely study celestial bodies and the behaviour of galaxies using radiation analysis. For the purpose, the ASTROSAT has 5 instruments on board: 

• UVIT : Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope
• LAXPC : Large Area X-rat Proportional Counter
• SXT : Soft X-ray Telescope
• CZTI : Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager
• SSM : Scanning Sky Monitor

The first four instruments are what hep use observe a celestial body or phenomenon by recording the various types of radiation it gives off; from the visible spectrum, to infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and hard and soft x-rays. Therefore, these four are aligned to look at the same point in space at one time. The fifth instrument, the SSM, is in fact three small position sensitive x-ray detectors that continuously patrol the sky, looking for changes in the radiation from celestial objects, so that the the satellite can be rotated to point the other four instruments there. Think of the SSM as the scout for the satellite. Of course, this entire setup has to be in space because our atmosphere is largely opaque to ultraviolet radiation, x-rays, gamma rays and also parts of infrared and microwave radiation.

 The ASTROSAT is India's first observation satellite launched into orbit, to study distant celestial bodies. The reason you've been hearing about it so much is because it's India's first satellite of its kind, built at a cost of Rs 178 crore (excluding the cost of launching the satellite) and we're also ahead of a lot of other countries. So far, only USA, Japan, and a few countries in the EU have observatories in space.

The public outreach arm of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) has released a list of FAQs as an explainer for the mission, that we're going to sum up here.

ASTROSAT will be studying various celestial bodies, as well as gathering data to hep us piece together how stars and galaxies are born. The satellite will undergo extensive tests for the first six months after launch. The next six will be devoted to observations and data collection predetermined by the mission team. But a year after launch, ASTROSAT's services will be available to any scientist in India, with a good proposal, reviewed by ISRO.
Once it passes the two-year mark, international scientists will be allowed to apply as well. Once a significant amount of time has passed for each bit of observation, the data will be made available to the public.

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 Thailand is the world’s 20th most populous country, with close to 67 million people.

. The full spelling of its capital, Bangkok, was clearly finalised before the days of Twitter. It is known to Thais as Krung Thep Maha Nakho, but its full ceremonial name is Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit .

It is the world’s most visited city, according to the Global Destinations Cities Index, ahead of London. It will welcome 16 million international arrivals this year.

 Buddhism is the country's main religion – it is practiced by 95 per cent of the population.

 Thailand is home to the world’s ninth tallest statue, The Great Buddha of Thailand, at the Wat Muang Monastery in Ang Thong province. It also has the world's highest stupa - Phra Pathom Chedi at 127 metres. The country's tallest building is the Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok - it is the world's 80th tallest at 304 metres.

Parts of Thailand are off-limits to British travellers. The Foreign Office advises against all travel to the Preah Vihear (Khaoi Pra Viharn in Thai) temple area and the Ta Krabey/Ta Moan temple area, on the Thai-Cambodian border, “due to the presence of troops in the area and the risk of outbreaks of fighting”. It also advises against all but essential travel to the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla on the Thai-Malaysia border, due to the threat of terrorism.

 One of the country’s most unusual festivals is the annual Monkey Buffet, held in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province. More than 600 monkeys are invited to feast on over two tonnes of grilled sausage, fresh fruit, ice cream and other treats. The locals see it as a thank you to the monkeys which inhabit the village and bring thousands of tourists there each year.

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Entomologist Erling Ólafsson is surprised that mosquitoes have neither settled in Iceland nor the Faroe Islands while they exist in the island states’ neighboring countries. There is no definite explanation as to why these two countries remain mosquito-free.

Lake Mývatn is home to midges and black flies but not mosquitoes.

Midges and black flies exist in Iceland, particularly in the area around Lake Mývatn in the northeast. Even though they bite, they are not considered as much of a menace as mosquitoes.