Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
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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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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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The definition of a white Christmas in the UK is for a single snow flake (perhaps amongst a shower of mixed rain and snow) to be observed falling in the 24 hours of December 25th.
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Although now mostly vegetarian, in Victorian times, mince pies were made with beef and spices.
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