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Christmas in Numbers. The number of Santa's original reindeer, according to the 1823 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas.". 8. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Christmas in Numbers
Christmas in Numbers
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The number of Santa's original reindeer, according to the 1823 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
8Dasher, Dancer, Prancer,
Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.
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The typical number of letters the post office at Nuuk, Greenland, receives each year addressed to Santa Claus, or Father Christmas.
50,000
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The year when Dresden's Striezelmarkt began, considered the oldest Christmas market in Germany.
1434
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The number of copies sold of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," the best-selling single of all time.
50 million
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The height of the world's tallest Christmas tree in Stockholm, Sweden, which features 5,000 festive lights.
38 meters high
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A Christmas tree needs to be planted about ______ years before it is sold.
10
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The Spanish Christmas Lottery was first organized in the year ______.
1812
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The year the first Christmas postage stamp was produced in Austria.
1937
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The world record for the most people dressed up as Santa, recorded by Guinness World Records on 9 September 2007 in Derry City, Northern Ireland.
12,965 people
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The average amount of money (in British Pounds) parents will spend on each of their children.
£262
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The percentage of British dogs that get Christmas gifts from their owners.
70% or 7/10 dogs
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Percentage of four-year-olds who believe in Father Christmas.
85%
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The number of winning numbers in this Spanish Lottery.
13,334
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The number of courses a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner has.
12
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The approximate number of Christmas cards Americans send a year.
Two billion cards
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The percentage of all diamonds that are sold over the Christmas period.
35%
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Celebrating Christmas was illegal in the UK for thirteen years from 1647 to _______.
1660
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The percentage of all Spaniards who purchase at least one décimo during the holiday Spanish lottery season.
98% of Spaniards
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The number of trees cut down to make all the Christmas cards sent in the UK.
200,000
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The ___ Days of Christmas: The popular Christmas song involving leaping lords, milk maids, pipers and partridges
12
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The amount of money (in British Pounds) spent by the average family on their Christmas dinner.
£170
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The total prize amount (in Euros) given out during the Spanish Christmas Lottery if all of the 195 series of each winning number were sold.
2,320,500,000 Euros!
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The year the first Christmas card was designed.
1843
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The number of real Christmas trees Americans bought in 2009, according to Forbes.com.
31 million
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The cost (in dollars, in yen) of a Japanese Christmas cake -- a 35-centimeter (14-inch) chocolate cake -- decorated with 100 diamonds
$848,600100 million yen
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The year that the first nativity scene was made, by St Francis of Assisi in a cave near Greccio, Italy.
1224
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The number of turkey sandwiches that will be eaten between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
100 million
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The Christmas Lottery in Spain is drawn according to a strict procedure on the ____ of December of every year.
22nd
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Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!