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Karam Koram highway : Islamabad (Pakistan) to Kashgar (Kashi) in China's Xinjiang province (1900 km). The highway goes through Chilas, Gilgit, Hunza and Khunjerab pass (4733 m) at Chinese border. Chinese experts and Pakistani engineers began the work in 1965 and completed in 1986. KK highway pass through Kohistan, which is close to the Nanga Parbat (8124 m). Skardu (2438 m) is the HQ of Baltistan. Mt Godwin Austen (K2, 8611 m, world's second highest peak) is in POK near China border. Other famous peak in POK is Gasherbrum (7821 m).

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Interesting facts about Ladakh, India

Lha is a Buddhist god and Lhamo is a goddess. Lotus is sacred for Buddhists - lotus eaters of Ladakh. The majority of Buddhists in Leh and Zanskar eat meat but do not kill animals themselves. So Muslim butchers were requested to come to Leh. All over India, except in Sikh and Christian areas, butchers almost always are Muslims. Buddhists consider it as a sin to kill or eat fish. A monk is called lama, while a nun is called chomo in Ladakh.

Of all Ladakhis, 56 % in 2001, had never married. Trial marriage is practiced by Muslims in Zanskar : If the marriage does not work, the child born during the 'trail' is assumed to be the child of whoever it's mother fianally marries. Polyandry is practiced in Ladakh - several men having a single woman as legal wife.

Zo (dzo) is born when a cow mates with a Yak. It is male and is sterile. Found in Da-Hanu near Ladakh. People of Da-Hanu baths once in a year!.

Mule is born when a horse mates with an ass. In mule, both genders are sterile.

Eunuch are born with genetical defects (malformed genitals) and are sterile.

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Interesting facts

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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Himalayan mouse hare is found in Valley of flowers in Uttarakhand. This animal lives on the few blades of grass that grow in higher regions. The grass is considered to be very nutritious and difficult to digest. The rabbits thus pass out the half digested food and quickly eats it's own droppings so as to subject them to another cycle of digestion. This recycling of food is characteristic of some other members of the wild as well and is known as pseudo rumination. The hare is a very unsuspecting creature. On the approach of the human beings, he stands and stares rather than flee. Quite a few of them find their way to the pot of the graziers.

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Snow leopards are found at high altitude Himalayas and a haunter of the wild silences. Its call is shriller than the panther's and resembles the sound of sawing wood made by the latter. In stealthy stalking, skill and speed, grace and agility, the beast is unmatched. He has the longest tail among the feline species.

Mating takes place in Feb - March and the litter is born in May - June after a gestation period of approximately fourteen to sixteen weeks. The litter consists of four to five cubs but according to local belief the mother feels so hungry that some of the cubs are devoured by her at birth. The cubs are as helpless as human babies at birth. They become fully adult in two or three years and live for about fifteen years.

From all accounts it appears that the mother alone tends the younger ones. she has to move large distances to collect food. Cubs get neglected and even lost at times.

I came to know more than one instance when cubs were picked up by graziers and trekkers. Their chances of survival are meagre and it is here that the main danger to the snow leopard lies. Food gets scarcer every day and living conditions impossible to cope with.

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polar bears are actually transarent. heck everyone knows that hahaha

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oh yeah i forgot, did you know???/ Grimace from mcdonalds is a tounge. a purple tounge, actualy, disgusting hahahahha

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Asia's superpowers - China, India and Pakistan.

India has 15600 km border to defend of which 4050 km is with China. India is one of the world's largest importers of arms. India has the fourth largest armed forces in the world. Future wars will be short wars of great intensity.

The accession of Kashmir to India at the time of the partition of the subcontinent has never been accepted by Pakistan. Since then they feel that the Hindu ruler of Kashmir (Raja Hari Singh) was coerced into joining the Union of India without ascertaining the wishes of the predominantly Muslim people.

Pakistan's effort to annex Kashmir by force, initially in 1947 - 48 (Op Gulmarg) and yet again in 1965 (Op Gibralter), was twarted by the Indian Army. Kashmir today stands divided along a loosely supervised Line Of Control (LoC) by the UN.

An uneasy peace prevails, frequently interrupted by military violation of the LoC.

Tibet was annexed to China in 1950. Dalai Lama flight to India in March 1959. Macleodganj in Dharmshala is the Head quarters of Dalai Lama.

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I seen on the news today that they are splicing rabbit genies with a tree. They hope the tree will soak up pollution from the soil they plant it in.