Christmas Facts

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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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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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    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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    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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    Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.
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    In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Ch
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