Christmas in Numbers

Christmas in Numbers

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.

The typical number of letters the post office at Nuuk, Greenland, receives each year addressed to Santa Claus, or Father Christmas.

50,000

The year when Dresden's Striezelmarkt began, considered the oldest Christmas market in Germany.

1434

The number of copies sold of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," the best-selling single of all time.

50 million

The height of the world's tallest Christmas tree in Stockholm, Sweden, which features 5,000 festive lights.

38 meters high

A Christmas tree needs to be planted about ______ years before it is sold.

10

The Spanish Christmas Lottery was first organized in the year ______.

1812

The year the first Christmas postage stamp was produced in Austria.

1937

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

The average amount of money (in British Pounds) parents will spend on each of their children.

£262

The percentage of British dogs that get Christmas gifts from their owners.

70% or 7/10 dogs

Percentage of four-year-olds who believe in Father Christmas.

85%

The number of winning numbers in this Spanish Lottery.

13,334

The number of courses a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner has.

12

The approximate number of Christmas cards Americans send a year.

Two billion cards

The percentage of all diamonds that are sold over the Christmas period.

35%

Celebrating Christmas was illegal in the UK for thirteen years from 1647 to _______.

1660

The percentage of all Spaniards who purchase at least one décimo during the holiday Spanish lottery season.

98% of Spaniards

The number of trees cut down to make all the Christmas cards sent in the UK.

200,000

The ___ Days of Christmas: The popular Christmas song involving leaping lords, milk maids, pipers and partridges

12

The amount of money (in British Pounds) spent by the average family on their Christmas dinner.

£170

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!

The year the first Christmas card was designed.

1843

The number of real Christmas trees Americans bought in 2009, according to Forbes.com.

31 million

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

The year that the first nativity scene was made, by St Francis of Assisi in a cave near Greccio, Italy.

1224

The number of turkey sandwiches that will be eaten between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

100 million

The Christmas Lottery in Spain is drawn according to a strict procedure on the ____ of December of every year.

22nd

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