CLARA TRAYNOR (I want to make your ads)

First door of our Bloom advent calendar: Let's see if Coca-Cola really invented Santa! Link to our website in bio!

Our Second door of our advent calendar: Did you know Bing Crosby's recording of Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' is the best-selling single of all time!

Our Third Door of our Advent Calendar: Did you know the first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade was actually called the Big Christmas Parade...AND it had elephants!

Time to open door 4 of our advent calendar: Did you know that ...James Edgar, owner of Edgar's department store in Brockton, Massachusetts, became the first department store Santa when in 1890 he dressed up as Santa Claus and walked around his department store to surprise shoppers.

Day Five: Did you know KFC is big in Japan at Christmas. It's so popular that the fast food chain recommends customers place their Christmas orders two months in advance!

Door 6: Did you know that Christmas sales make up 1/6 of annual retail sales in the U.S.?!

Door 7: Did you know that 83 square km of wrapping paper are sold in the UK each Christmas?

Door 8: Did you know ... A Charlie Brown Christmas, an annually broadcast Peanuts Christmas special, was suggested by advertising agency McCann Erickson as a way to promote Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola company financed the cartoon and the logo appeared in three scenes of the original version, but has since been removed.

Door 9: Did you know that ... The most expensive christmas tree was put up in Abu Dhabi in 2011. It was decorated with jewellery worth 9,640,825.

Door 10: Did you know that ...rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented by the advertising department of Montgomery Ward department stores in the US? Copywriter Robert L. May wrote the story for the store's 1939 Christmas booklet.

Door 11: Did you know that...the biggest ever secret santa was organised by reddit in 2012 and had 30,000 participants.

Door 12: Did you know that...the first animation of rudolph the red nosed reindeer from 1964 was sponsored by General Electric and included numerous product placements, which have since been removed?

Door 13: Did you know that ...Iceland has 13 Santa's, including one that kidnaps children if they've been naughty :o

Door 14: Did you know that...to deliver all his #gifts ,santa would have to stop at 822 houses per second!

Time to open our 15th door! Did you know that Christmas trees grow for roughly 15 years before they are sold? Yep, fir real!

It's door 16!...So, 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' was originally sung as a threat. The song was sung, loudly and repeatedly, by rowdy servants demanding booze from their masters...or else! ('We won't go until we get some!')

Door 17: Did you know that Mistletoe means "little dung twig"...the plant spreads through bird droppings.

What's behind door 18? Did you know that all the gifts in the Twelve days of Christmas would equal 364 gifts!

Door 19? Well! It's funny you should ask! Here is what's behind our advent door today... (Creeaak) Did you know that one of the first commerically sold artifical Christmas trees was made from toilet brishes? Eau yes!

Door 20 is one for our friends across the pond...Did you know that last Christmas saw the UK consuming approximately 10 million turkeys? A great lot of gobblers!

We hope you aren't tucking into some early Turkey sandwiches because door 21 is a rather disgusting one!... Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph's red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection.

Door 22! The world's largest snowflake to date found was 38cm wide and 20cm thick. This special sight was found at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA in 1887.

Door 23: Did you know that the planning starts on most Christmas window displays one year in advance?! #christmas

Are you fed up with the Christmas songs yet? Here's a fun fact for you behind door 24...Paul McCartney earns nearly half a million euro every year from his Christmas song, which many critics regard as his worst song ever.