Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
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Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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'Klaxon' is a name that does not belong to one of Santa's reindeer. A klaxon is actually a powerful electric horn. Its name comes from a German word meaning "shriek".
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The 26th of December is traditionally known as St Stephen's Day, but is more commonly known as Boxing Day. The reason it was called this is either alms boxes in church were opened and the money distributed to the poor, or alternatively it was named from t
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Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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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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