Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    In many households, part of the fun of eating Christmas pudding is finding a trinket that predicts your fortune for the coming year. For instance, finding a coin means you will become wealthy. A ring means you will get married; while a button predicts bac
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    Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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    Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
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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
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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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