Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

    There are 44 Christmas Facts!

    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    The tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.
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    The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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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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    Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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