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On 13 October 2006, he was elected as the eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly

On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan.

Ban Ki-Moon  serves as the eighth Secretary-General until 2016.

He belongs to the Republic of Korea 

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Famous play of William Shakespeare First performed in 1603

Henry VI was the first play by William Shakespeare.

 Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark is probably the best-known of William Shakespeare's works,

and may well be the most famous English-language play ever written.

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If the sum of the digits of a number is divisible by 3, then the number is also divisible by 3.

Here, 9+9+6=24 is multiple of 3.

So, 996 is the largest number divisible by 3

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Area = (9 x 12) : 2 = 54 square unit

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Let the two  numbers be x and x+66.

Since the LCM is 360, there must be 5,2 and 3 as the prime factors of the two numbers.

So, one pair is 24 & 90, because 90−24=66.

Also, 24=2×2×2×3

90=2×3×3×5

∴ LCM=2×2×2×3×3×5=360.

So, the numbers are 24 and 90.

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Biotechnology can also be employed to develop functional foods with health-promoting properties

and to reduce food waste while promoting sustainability in food production.

Additives, enzyme processing, and fermentative processes are key techniques

that can be used to improve food quality and shelf life.

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AB-positive blood type is known as the “universal recipient” because AB-positive patients can receive red blood cells from all blood types.

The blood group system was discovered by Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner in 1901.

He identified the ABO blood group system,

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Sir Isaac Newton's three law of motions

In 1686, he presented his three laws of motion in the “Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis.”

In the first law, an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it.

In the second law, the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration.

In the third law, when two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction.

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The retina is a thin layer of tissue that lines the back of the eye on the inside.

It is located near the optic nerve.

The purpose of the retina is to receive light that the lens has focused,

convert the light into neural signals,

and send these signals on to the brain for visual recognition

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