7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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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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The first Christmas card was designed in 1843 by J.C. Horsley.
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Although now mostly vegetarian, in Victorian times, mince pies were made with beef and spices.
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