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lake water in pink colour, yes it is possible

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The "lake hillier" on middle island Australia is bright pink. According to the researchers, the unique pink color of the lake is due to the algae, halobacteria, and other microbes. The lake has a very high level of salinity. The water of this lake is as salty as the dead sea. The lake is safe to swim in, but you can't hop in the lake. The lake is about 600 meters long and 250 meters wide.

we know earth, but who named it

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You know no one knows who named our planet as -EARTH, Whereas we know its meaning, Which means the ground. But still who named it that, is unknown.

Bananas are curved because of the sun

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Yes, you heard it right. This happens due to the process called negative geotropism. negative geotropism is nothing but as its name suggests negative means opposite and geotropism means the gravity that simply means opposite to gravity. The process in which the plant parts grow opposite to the gravity is known as negative geotropism. Banana’s pulls themselves to the rays of sunlight that is coming from the big leaves of banana and at the same time gravity attracts banana down. In this process, not even the banana grows straight nor gravity completely attracts the banana towards itself, but in this process banana gets its smily curved shape.

Sahara desert was once a tropical rainforest

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Sahara desert once was a tropical rainforest. The Sahara desert which is the hottest desert in the world right now was once a tropical rainforest, yes studies say that about 6000 years ago Sahara was a tropical rainforest covered with Greenland all over, with plenty of rainfall. but according to studies due to the rise in solar radiation, it turned into the hottest desert of the world right now.

Glaciers are the largest fresh water reservoir

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Glaciers are the largest reservoir of fresh water on earth. This is because among the 3 % of total freshwater available on earth, near about 3 quarter (~70%)of freshwater is in the form of Glaciers.