Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

    There are 44 Christmas Facts!

    Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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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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    Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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    In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Ch
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    The abbreviation Xmas isn't irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.
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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 world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
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