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In addition to spices, Zanzibar also exports seaweed and raffia (a bamboo palm with long pinnately divided leaves, the largest plants in the world with fiber-producing leaves).

A climatic curiosity in Austria is the occurrence of the foehn - a warm and dry wind from the Sahara.

The Ikeda Route highway offramp in Fukushima goes through a building.

The colonial authorities caused the extermination of the local population by introducing the encomienda system (slavery and control over the Indian population).

Of particular interest is the Rodrigues coral reef.

The rapid development of rum production in Cuba took place after 1800, when copper alembics - vessels used for distillation - were imported from Europe and when it was discovered that aged rum improves its taste and aroma.

The interior of South Africa consists of a vast, in most places almost flat plateau called the High Weld, which ranges in height from 1000 to 2100 m.

Only half of Nigeria’s population has access to potable water.

Germans produce more than 5,000 kinds of beer in more than 1,300 breweries.

According to nature lovers, the most beautiful peak of the High Tatras in Slovakia is Kriváň (2495 m above sea level).