Christmas Facts

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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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    The typical image we have of Santa Claus dressed in red clothes with white fur trim, is an amalgamation of cultural input over many years. Some people claim the image of Santa we know today is from Coca-cola advertising, but this simply isn't true. The st
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    Robins on cards were a joke 150 years ago when postmen wore red tunics and were named after them.
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    The word Christmas comes from Cristes maesse, or "Christ's Mass." There is no set date for his birth in scripture and it wasn't celebrated on any particular day. However Christmas was first celebrated on the 25th of December in Rome in 336AD with an aim t
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    Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but sometime in September between 6BC and 30AD.
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    In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.
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    The world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
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