Electric Christmas
lights were first used in 1854.
The famous Christmas
carol, ‘Silent Night’ was first sung as part of a church service in Austria. A
guitar was used due to the fact that the church organ was so badly rusted, it
couldn’t be played.
Not everyone opens
their Christmas presents on Christmas day. For example in Greece they open them
on New Year’s Day.
There are364 gifts
mentioned in ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’.
Scientists in the USA
calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the
world’s present on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
Carols were not sung
in churches until they were introduced by St Francis of Assisi in the 13th
century.
The traditional
Christmas meal in England, before the current turkey, was a pig’s head and
mustard.
Some parts of the
Christmas tree can actually be eaten, with the needles being a good source of
Vitamin C.
The word Christmas
derives from the Old English ‘Cristes maesse’, which means ‘Christ’s Mass’.
The first Christmas
celebrated in the United Kingdom is thought to have been in York in 512 AD.
The first commercial
Christmas card was produced and sold in London in 1843.
People in the USA buy
25-30 million real trees and 8-12 million artificial trees to decorate each
year.
For many countries,
Christmas is the single largest annual economic stimulus.
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