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    Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
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    Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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    Christmas trees become popular in the UK from 1841 when Prince Albert erected a tree in Windsor Castle following a German tradition. Fir trees have been decorated at Christmas time in Germany since the 8th century.
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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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    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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