Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

    There are 44 Christmas Facts!

    The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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    'Klaxon' is a name that does not belong to one of Santa's reindeer. A klaxon is actually a powerful electric horn. Its name comes from a German word meaning "shriek".
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    Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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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 world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
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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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    There are 13 Santas in Iceland, each leaving a gift for children. They come down from the mountain one by one, starting on December 12 and have names like Spoon Licker, Door Sniffer and Meat Hook.
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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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