Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of shopping, many people get very drunk!
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The 26th of December is traditionally known as St Stephen's Day, but is more commonly known as Boxing Day. The reason it was called this is either alms boxes in church were opened and the money distributed to the poor, or alternatively it was named from t
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Robins on cards were a joke 150 years ago when postmen wore red tunics and were named after them.
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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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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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