5 Christmas History Facts

Mainly Useless History Facts and Stats

As we all start to festively wind down for the festive season, we got to thinking about our favourite cracker jokes and whether we could fit any into our final few articles of the year (you may have noticed we haven’t posted too many of late and that’s because we know you’ve no doubt had hundreds of other emails, we didn’t want to fill your inbox).

Anyway. We thought, oooh cracker jokes… but apart from the obviously hilarious dad jokes…

The best thing to find in a cracked (except a corkscrew, because someone forgot to buy one) is obviously an interesting factoid!

So with that, and our minds are filled with random facts, mainly useless (to be fair). We want to share with you 5 Christmassy Facts that you can share around your table this Christmas - and sound like a genius.

Festive Facts for the Christmas Table

When did Christmas become Xmas?

The first examples of Xmas being used are found in 15th century ecclesiastical writings.

The X originally represented the first letter of the Greek wor…