In India for Christmas, a small number of Christians are decorating banana trees.
A duck’s heart beats twice as slower when it dives.
Every 30.000 years riverbeds are deepened by a meter.
The tallest waterfall on Earth is Angel Falls in Venezuela. There the river Kerep falls from the height of 979 meters.
Scientists claim that every 14 days one language dies. By the end of the 21st century, it is likely that almost half of the approximately 7.000 languages will disappear.
The Subjects of Louis IX the King of France were branded with a hot iron as a sign of loyalty.
