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 Lake Victoria is the most populous lake among the following options

It is one of the African Great Lakes.

With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km2 (23,146 sq mi)

It is Africa's largest lake by area, and the world's largest tropical lake

History:

The lake was renamed after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke

The first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton

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Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia,

It is the main source of the Blue Nile

The lake is approximately 84 kilometres (52 miles) long and 66 kilometres (41 miles) wide,

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Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers in the world — over 900 million.

It is the official language of China and widely spoken across Asia.

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Braille is a system that uses combinations of raised dots to spell letters and numbers.

Louis Braille was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system

Braille was blinded at the age of three in one eye

Born: 4 January 1809 Coupvray, France

Died: 6 January 1852 (aged 43) Paris, France

Resting place: Panthéon, Paris Coupvray

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On March 11, 2025, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested.

The arrest was carried out by the Philippine National Police and Interpol.

The operation was called Operation Pursuit.

Duterte was arrested under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.

He was charged with crimes against humanity.

The charges are related to the Philippine drug war conducted during his presidency.

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44 Countries are there Landlocked in the world.

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• The epiglottis is a flap-like structure that covers the larynx (voice box) during swallowing.
• It preventing food and liquids from entering the trachea (windpipe).
• It instead directing them into the esophagus.

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• Microscopes are used to magnify and observe tiny objects.
• Such as microorganisms, cells, and tiny structures.
• That are not visible to the naked eye.

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Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation, explaining how gravity works.

He famously described gravity after observing an apple fall from a tree.

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Slumps are different from flows because, although the material under the slump may act like a liquid, the actual material that slides downhill stays solid.