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2. Elephant - Wikipedia

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   They can expand their nostrils by 30%, leading to a 64% greater nasal volume, and can breathe in almost 30 times faster than a human sneeze, at over 150 m/s (490 ft/s). [50] They suck up water, which is squirted into the mouth or over the body. [29] [50] The trunk of an adult Asian elephant is capable of retaining 8.5 L (2.2 US gal) of water. [45]

3. Islamic scarf controversy in France - Wikipedia

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   In France, there is an ongoing social, political, and legal debate concerning the wearing of the hijab and other forms of Islamic coverings in public. The cultural framework of the controversy can be traced to France's history of colonization in North Africa, [1] but escalated into a significant public debate in 1989 when three girls were suspended from school for refusing to remove their ...

4. Rationing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   All types of soap were rationed. Coupons were allotted by weight or (if liquid) by quantity. In 1945, the ration gave four coupons each month; babies and some workers and invalids were allowed more. [49] A coupon would yield: 4 oz (113 g) bar hard soap; 3 oz (85 g) bar toilet soap; 1 ⁄ 2 oz (14 g) No. 1 liquid soap; 6 oz (170 g) soft soap

5. iPhone - Wikipedia

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   The company also claimed that locations being collected when location services were off, and being stored for more than a year, were both bugs. [150] Apple issued an update for iOS (version 4.3.3 , or 4.2.8 for the CDMA iPhone 4) which reduced the size of the cache, encrypted it, stopped it being backed up to iTunes, and erased it entirely ...

6. List of smoking bans - Wikipedia

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   On 30 July 2012, Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz ordered the implementation of a royal ban on smoking in all government facilities (ministries, buildings, institutions, offices etc.) [221] and most indoor public places. The ban also prohibits smoking of hookahs in public places, and prohibits selling tobacco to anyone under 18.

7. Gamma-ray burst - Wikipedia

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   The observation of minutes to hours of X-ray flashes after a short gamma-ray burst is consistent with small particles of a primary object like a neutron star initially swallowed by a black hole in less than two seconds, followed by some hours of lesser energy events, as remaining fragments of tidally disrupted neutron star material (no longer ...