The first Christmas card was designed in 1843 by J.C. Horsley.
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Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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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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The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower. In Mexico (its original birthplace), the poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night".
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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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Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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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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Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but sometime in September between 6BC and 30AD.
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