Just to finish off the working year, here are 12 fun facts we found about Christmas:
- If you gave all of the gifts from the Twelve Days of Christmas it would be 364 gifts
- Tinsel was invented in 1610 in Germany and was once made of real silver
- During the Christmas season almost 28 sets of Lego are sold every second.
- The song Jingle Bells was actually written for thanksgiving and not Christmas.
- Coca-Cola was the first company to use Santa Claus during the winter season for advertising.
- The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the US by the French on Christmas day in 1886
- Japanese spend Christmas Eve eating in KFCs (some have to book 2 months in advance).
- White Christmas by Bing Crosby is the best selling Christmas song ever with over 50 million sold worldwide.
- King William I was crowned on Christmas day in 1066.
- In Hawaii, Santa is known a Kanakaloka.
- Approximately 10 million turkeys are consumed in the UK during Christmas.
- The image on Santa in his sleigh began in 1819 by the same author who dreamt up the headless horseman!
