We’ve rounded up our favourite festive facts for you to wow your friends with this Christmas

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6 MILLION – The number of rolls of sellotape that will be sold in the UK in the run up to Christmas.

 

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According to tradition, you should eat one mince pie on each of the 12 days of Christmas to bring good luck.

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In order for Santa to visit every home on Christmas Eve he’d have to visit 822 HOMES PER SECOND.

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The are 364 gifts mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

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34 M – The height of the tallest ever snowman, which was built in Maine, America.

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62,824 – The record number of Christmas cards sent by a single person in a year.

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‘Mistletoe’comes from the Anglo Saxon words ‘Mistel’ (meaning dung) and ‘tan’ (meaning twig), which translates as ‘poo on a stick’. Not so romantic!

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Reindeer are the only mammal that have colour- changing eyes. In summer they appear golden brown and in winter they look blue.

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Before turkey, the traditional Christmas meal in England was a pig’s head and mustard.

 

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During the Christmas period, around 28 SETS of LEGO are sold PER SECOND.

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Putting tangerines in Christmas stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks of fruit and nuts at houses of the poor.

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Many parts of the Christmas tree can actually be eaten – the needles being a good source of Vitamin C.

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Thanks to a successful “Kentucky for Christmas!” ad campaign in 1947, Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner.

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Jingle Bells is the only Christmas song that doesn’t mention Christmas, Jesus or the Nativity.

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38 CM – The width of the largest recorded snowflake’.

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Cranberries are also known as “bounce berries” because they bounce when ripe.