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2. Giant-impact hypothesis - Wikipedia

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   Artist's depiction of a collision between two planetary bodies. Such an impact between Earth and a Mars-sized object likely formed the Moon.. The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Theia Impact, is an astrogeology hypothesis for the formation of the Moon first proposed in 1946 by Canadian geologist Reginald Daly.

3. Big Mac Index - Wikipedia

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   Big Mac index, November 2022. The Big Mac Index is a price index published since 1986 by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and providing a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. It "seeks to make exchange-rate ...

4. Extinction event - Wikipedia

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   The "Big Five" cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest (or some of the largest) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events. [3] All of the five in the Phanerozoic Eon were anciently preceded by the presumed far more extensive mass extinction of microbial life during the Great Oxidation Event (aka ...

5. Nunavut - Wikipedia

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   Nunavut (/ ˈ n ʊ n ə v ʊ t /, / ˈ n uː n ə v uː t /; French:, , ; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, , lit. ' our land ' [11]) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act [12] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, [13] which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government.

6. Austria - Wikipedia

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   Austria, [e] formally the Republic of Austria, [f] is a country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. [13] It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state.

7. Durian - Wikipedia

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   The durian (/ ˈ d ʊər i ə n /, / ˈ dj ʊər i ə n /) [1] is the edible fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio.There are 30 recognized Durio species, at least nine of which produce edible fruit.