Christmas Facts

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    US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower. In Mexico (its original birthplace), the poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night".
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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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    The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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