Christmas Facts

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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    The first Christmas card was designed in 1843 by J.C. Horsley.
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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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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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    The twelve days of Christmas are the days between Christmas Day and Epiphany (6th of January) and represent the length of time it took for the wise men from the East to visit the manger of Jesus after his birth.
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    US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
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    The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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    The definition of a white Christmas in the UK is for a single snow flake (perhaps amongst a shower of mixed rain and snow) to be observed falling in the 24 hours of December 25th.
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