Latest General Knowledge Facts - 8 April 2026

• Menaka Guruswamy, a Supreme Court lawyer, took oath as a Rajya Sabha member. She is the first MP in India to openly identify as queer. Queer people are those who do not conform to traditional gender categories.
• NASA's Artemis-II mission astronauts set a new record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth. They covered 400,171 km, surpassing the Apollo-13 mission record from 1970. The mission involves orbiting the Moon and returning safely.
• To Lam has been elected as the new President of Vietnam by the National Assembly. He was re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party in January, making him the first Vietnamese leader to hold both positions simultaneously.