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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Louis Prang, a Bavarian-born lithographer who came to the USA from Germany in the 19th century, popularized the sending of printed Christmas cards. He invented a way of reproducing color oil paintings
, the "chromolithograph technique", and created a car
, the "chromolithograph technique", and created a car
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The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
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Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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The abbreviation Xmas isn't irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.
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The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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