Christmas Facts

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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented for a US firm's Christmas promotion in 1938.
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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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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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    Robins on cards were a joke 150 years ago when postmen wore red tunics and were named after them.
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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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    The abbreviation Xmas isn't irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.
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    Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but sometime in September between 6BC and 30AD.
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