December 2010 - The Bulletin Magazine

Top Ten Christmas
Record Breakers
Christmas is loved by millions of people all over the world. Why not try to break a record while you are baking
Christmas cookies or folding paper angels? Here is a list of some amazing Christmas records.
1. Biggest selling Christmas song is Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The song was written by
Sir Bob Geldof, and sold fifty million copies and continues to be a holiday favourite today!
2. The world's largest gift was the Statue of Liberty. The people of France gave it to the U.S. in 1886. It's 151
feet, 1 inch high and weighs 225 tonnes.
3. The most valuable Christmas card was sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK in 2001 for £20,000
(approx. $40.000). The card was originally sent by Sir Henry Cole of Bath to his grandmother in 1843!
4. The largest Christmas angel ornament is over 18 feet (5.57 meters) high and over 8 feet wide at the
bottom. It's made out of 2946 beer bottles. The angel was displayed on Alfonso Reyes Avenue, Nuevo
Leon, Mexico in January 2000.
5. World's largest working Christmas cracker is 181 foot, 11 inch long and 11 foot, 9 inch high. It was made
in Australia. It was pulled at a shopping center in Sydney, Australia on December 16, 1998.
6. With 3,000 Christmas lights, a towering Eucalyptus regnans, 80 meters (262 ft) tall, became the tallestever
Christmas tree in the world. This record was set in Tasmania in 1999. Later The Guinness Book of
Records has rejected The Wilderness Society's claim for the world's tallest Christmas Tree on the grounds
that the tree was a eucalypt and not a spruce. "This is a mean-spirited, pedantic snub," said the Wilderness
Society's Tasmanian Campaign Coordinator, Geoff Law.
7. Every year, the citizens of Gävle Sweden build the world's largest christmas goat out of straw. This is their
Christmas tradition. Unfortunately for them, almost every year the poor goat gets burned down. Its a
13-metre tall, 7-metre long, 3 tonne goat.
8. Bronner's Christmas Wonderland is a retail store in Frankenmuth, Michigan that bills itself as the "World's
Largest Christmas Store". The store has grown to the size of five-and-a-half football fields and is home
to over 50,000 gifts.
9. Five-hundred-and-nineteen Christmas carollers have braved the New York cold to sing themselves into the
Guinness World Records Book. The group has become the largest carol service, breaking the previous
record of 517. The singers gathered on the steps of Manhattan's General Post Office across the street from
Madison Square Garden.
10. Forget modern novelists and TV tie-ins, the Bible is the best-selling book every year. The Bible was the
first book and is the all-time best selling book with 1 billion copies having been sold.
What do you have in December that you don't have in any other month?
The letter "D" !
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