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 world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
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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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Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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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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