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17 facts about Christmas Tree
17 facts about Christmas Tree
An iconic symbol
It is the most characteristic symbol of Christmas and its indispensable element, without which it is difficult to imagine the holidays. Green, fragran ...

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Tennis
A tennis ball measures between 6.54 and 6.86 centimeters in diameter and weighs between 56 and 59.4 grams.
Harry Potter
As Rowling stated, Voldemort was incapable of love and mercy, because he was conceived under the effects of a love potion.
His mother seduced her husband and continuously fed him the love potion for several years. Once she stopped, her husband left her and baby Tom to their fates.
Volleyball
For more than a century, the volleyball consisted of eighteen leather panels sewn together.
This design only changed in 2008, when Mikasa prepared a ball consisting of eight panels. This solut ...
Tennis
The first tennis player to win the Grand Slam was Don Budge in 1938.
He remains the only American male tennis player to win all four championships in one year.
Cricket
Cricket was most likely invented by shepherds.
They used a ball of wool to bypass the time spent on shepherding.
Volleyball
The first volleyball games were conducted using a bladder taken out of a basketball.
It was one too light and moved too slowly so attempts were made to use basketballs for this purpose. These, in turn, were too heavy for volleyball.
Golf
One of the greatest achievements in golf is hitting the ball into the hole in one shot.
Such a hit is called a hole-in-one, and it is estimated that such a chance is 1 in 12.000 strokes.
Christmas Tree
The first Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square Peter in the Vatican appeared on Christmas 1982, in the fourth year of the pontificate of John Paul II.
John Paul II introducing the tradition of the Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square emphasized that i ...
Oktoberfest
From 1850, an important annual and important event of Oktoberfest was the parade, organized on the model of the one held in honor of Ludwig of Bavaria and his wife Therese.
Eight thousand people, mostly from Bavaria, dressed in traditional clothes, walk from Maximilian Str ...
Golf
A golf course is an area of several to several dozen hectares, covered with trimmed grass.
It contains 9 or 18 holes, which are sequentially numbered and spaced accordingly. Each hole has a c ...