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Thursday, 7 May 2026
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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Oktoberfest
When Oktoberfest celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1910, 12,000. hectoliters of beer were poured into mugs.
The largest beer tent at that time had space for 12 thousand of guests. Today, the largest festival hall, Hofbräu, houses 10 thousand places and is the largest beer tent at Oktoberfest.
Escape rooms
Escape rooms are becoming an increasingly popular form of education in the US and Scandinavian countries.
According to various estimates, there are about 50-60 thousand of them around the world, and over th ...
StarCraft
StarCraft takes place in space and... space it has visited.
In 1999, NASA astronaut Daniel Barry took a copy of the first game on his voyage to the Internationa ...
Volleyball
During a set, a team can make six changes.
Players from the initial setting after the change may return to the court but only in place of their setting.
Christmas Tree
A Christmas tree is a decorated spruce or fir tree, or less often a pine tree.
Most often, these are natural trees, but there are also artificial ones.
StarCraft
On August 14, 2017, Blizzard released StarCraft: Remastered.
It improved graphics to 4K quality, refreshed the soundtrack, and improved online features while maintaining the original gameplay.
Golf
The first American woman to become an Olympic champion in golf was Margaret Ives Abbott.
She won first place in the women’s golf competition at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. She won the ...
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.
Tennis
At the beginning, the game was known as “jeu de paume.”
It translates to “game of the palm,” as it was played with bare hands.
Jurassic Park
The screenplay does not faithfully reflect the story from the book.
Inaccuracies include the characters who manage to escape with their lives. In the book, both Park’s ...