Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of shopping, many people get very drunk!
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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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Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but sometime in September between 6BC and 30AD.
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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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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Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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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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