True or false? Christmas facts
Below are statements about Christmas - can you work out if they're true or false? (Some of them aren't directly related to Christmas, but interesting anyway)
Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
On Christmas Eve in 2001, the Bethlehem Hotel had 208 of its 210 rooms free.
On Christmas Day in Belgium, it is legal for police officers to throw bananas at children
Cows don't have upper front teeth
The word 'mistletoe' means 'dung on a twig' in Anglo-Saxon
It was illegal to celebrate Christmas in England during the mid fifteenth century.
The Canadian Post Office has given Santa Claus his own official postal code at the North Pole.
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) tracks Santa and his sleigh every year on radar.
All true I say
Posted by:MacKinlay | 21 December 2006 at 05:33 PM
where are the answers?
Posted by:Hannah | 21 December 2006 at 05:34 PM
Well done Sarah!!! Clever girl. All the statements are indeed true.
I have another interesting fact just for you. Did you know that the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Posted by:Emma | 21 December 2006 at 05:37 PM
how young do the coconuts have to be for that to work?
Posted by:Hannah | 21 December 2006 at 05:41 PM
Thank you Emma... I did infact know that the liquid inside a young cocnut may be used as a substitute for blood plasma. But well done for sharing your knowledge
Posted by:MacKinlay | 21 December 2006 at 05:42 PM
No worries Hannah. Any time. Toodle pip
Posted by:Emma | 21 December 2006 at 05:45 PM