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Christmastime is full of different traditions, young and old. Did you know these interesting facts about the most wonderful time of the year?

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There’s a reason we deck the halls with green, red, and gold at Christmas time! Green is a symbol of life and rebirth, while the red symbolises the blood of Christ, and gold celebrates light and wealth.

 

Before baubles and tinsel people decorated trees with apples. This is a medieval tradition, and is meant to represent Adam and Eve’s creation and fall.

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Apples were used to decorate Christmas trees in the Middle Ages.
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By the end of the song ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ the singer’s ‘true love’ had given 364 presents! 

 

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The character of Santa Claus goes back hundreds of years, but his iconic red suit only came about in the 1930s when the Coca Cola Company re-dressed him for an advertisment.

 

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Coca Cola are responsible for the red suit Santa wears.
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The highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time is How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey – wow!

While Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, theologians don’t think his birthday is actually the 25th of December, but rather sometime in September.

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The largest Christmas cracker ever pulled was in Buckinghamshire, England in 2001. Over 60 metres long, it was 4 metres tall and even went ‘bang!’. Before 2001 Australia held the record with a 45 metre long cracker made in 1991.

The largest Christmas cracker was 60 metres long
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