Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

    There are 44 Christmas Facts!

    Santa Claus has many different names around the world including Father Christmas in the UK, Pere Noel in France, Kriss Kringle in Germany, La Befana in Italy, Julinesse in Denmark, Dedushka Moroz (meaning Grandfather Frost) in Russia and the Three Kings i
    22
    Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
    251
    In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.
    103
    Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
    74
    '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".
    3
    Although now mostly vegetarian, in Victorian times, mince pies were made with beef and spices.
    14
    The world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
    82
    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
    101