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in ScienceWhat is an enlarged prostate?
Answer: An enlarged prostate, medically known as benign prostate enlargement, was brought into the limelight by King Charles in January 2024.
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in HistoryWhich British monarch reigned the longest?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II will become, on Feb. 6, 2022, the first British monarch to reign for seven decades. Festivities marking the anniversary will peek in a four-day weekend beginning on Thursday, June 2, with the annual military parade that marks the queen’s 70th coronation anniversary, also known as her “official birthday.” The queen will…
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in TVWhat is The Green Planet?
Answer: The Green Planet is a five-part series presented by the veteran naturalist David Attenborough about plants. The series started airing on the UK’s BBC One on Jan. 9, 2022.
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How old is Kate Middleton in 2022?
Answer: Kate Middleton, AKA Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was born on Jan. 9, 1982 – making her 40 in 2022._x000D_
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in BusinessWhich food products were in short supply in the UK in 2021?
Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic sparked a supply chain crisis in the United Kingdom during 2021, leading to scarcities of goods, including McDonald’s milkshakes, Nando’s chicken, and the Marmite breakfast spread._x000D_
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in PlacesWhat is the British Freedom Day?
Britain lifted most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on July 19 in what has been dubbed “Freedom Day.” Freedom from face masks, that is.
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in ScienceHow is Flash flooding different from just flooding?
Flash flooding is a sudden deluge after heavy rainfall. The flooding begins within six hours and often within three hours of heavy rain. Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to flash flooding because they have a lot of paved surfaces. The US Weather Service defines a flood as the inundation of a normally dry area with…
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in ScienceWho is Prof. Sarah Gilbert?
Prof. Sarah Gilbert led the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_She is now a part of the medical Barbie collection, along with five other women working in laboratories around the world: US healthcare workers Amy O’Sullivan and Dr. Audrey Cruz, a Canadian doctor and campaigner Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa, Brazilian biomedical researcher Dr. Jaqueline Goes…
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in PoliticsWhich city elected the world’s first non-binary mayor in 2021?
Bangor, a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, and the oldest city in Wales, made history in this year’s local and mayoral election by appointing the first openly nonbinary mayor of any city in the world on May 10, 2021._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhich Prime Minister had a wealthy donor pay for the redecoration of his official residence in what became 2021’s “cash for curtains” scandal?
While all mentioned Prime Ministers are the subject of illegal donor-related inquiries, the one named “cash for curtains” in 2021 revolves around British PM Boris Johnson. The latter failed to disclose that a wealthy Conservative Party benefactor had paid for the redecoration of his official residence in London. Although Johnson later settled the bill, on…
