The world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
82
The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
18
The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
28
Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each year in Europe.
74
The word Christmas comes from Cristes maesse, or "Christ's Mass." There is no set date for his birth in scripture and it wasn't celebrated on any particular day. However Christmas was first celebrated on the 25th of December in Rome in 336AD with an aim t
16
In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.
103
Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but sometime in September between 6BC and 30AD.
42