Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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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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The typical image we have of Santa Claus dressed in red clothes with white fur trim, is an amalgamation of cultural input over many years. Some people claim the image of Santa we know today is from Coca-cola advertising, but this simply isn't true. The st
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
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The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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