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Electric Vehicles

 Day by day petrol price hike might have made us at least think about an Electric Vehicle. Most of us are really confused whether to own one or not due to many reasons like higher price, maintenance, lesser range, availability of charging stations etc. It is actually a technological wonder. Let us now see what are the advantages, challenges as well as disadvantages of owning an EV. EVs came into existence in mid-19th century. Electricity was only one among the preferred method of vehicle propulsion. Later, modern IC Engines dominated the sector. In 21st Century, highly efficient EVs which were capable of replacing IC engines were produced. The main advantage was its emission-less engines. Increased focus in renewable energy and to reduce climatic changes caused due to carbon emission was the main agenda for the EV developers. Nowadays, electric engines are capable enough to produce an equivalent power which an IC Engine can generate. Premium automotive brands like Mercedes, BMW, Po...

WHAT IF TITANOBOA (WORLD'S LARGEST SNAKE) DIDN'T GO EXTINCT!!!!!!

  60 million years  ago, following the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, giant snakes roamed the Americas. The biggest of these snakes was known as Titanoboa and it was just as terrifying as it sounds. Related to modern-day boa constrictors, Titanoboa was a monster. Thankfully, Titanoboa went extinct, but what if it didn’t? That’s exactly what we are going to talk about, right now on. Hello and welcome back to life’s biggest questions, the channel that asks the questions everyone else is too afraid to ask. A team of scientists found a Titanoboa fossil at an open-pit coal mine in Colombia. The Titanoboa makes modern-day anacondas look like toys. According to fossils, Titanoboa was 12.8 meters or 42 feet long and weighed about 1,100 kg or 2500 pounds. But because snake fossils are extremely hard to find, it's not completely out of the question that it could have grown to be even larger. Its believed that Titanoboa ate large turtles and crocodylomorphs, which were ...