Christmas Facts

    Random Christmas Facts

    There are 44 Christmas Facts!

    In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.
    103
    The twelve days of Christmas are the days between Christmas Day and Epiphany (6th of January) and represent the length of time it took for the wise men from the East to visit the manger of Jesus after his birth.
    36
    The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
    18
    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
    100
    Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
    74
    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.
    415
    The world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
    82
    The tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.
    42