Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
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The first Christmas card was designed in 1843 by J.C. Horsley.
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Popular belief holds that 3 wise men visited Bethlehem from the east bearing gifts. However there is no mention in the bible about the number of wise men who visited. Three gifts were brought - gold, frankincense and myrrh, but names commonly attributed t
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The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. It is usually made of straw. Scandinavian Christmas festivities feature a variety of straw decorations in the form of stars, angels, hearts and other shapes, as well as t
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