Today, 10 million turkeys will be eaten in Britain.
If you're posh, you might be tucking into one of the 250,000 geese reared specially for the occasion - while pushing around your plate a few of the 10,000 tons of brussels sprouts that are sold at Christmas.
Or you could be one of the 1,548 people who will fill in and file your tax return on Christmas Day!...
Here's a few more interesting things that we get up to on Christmas Day.....
8000 people will log onto the DVLA website and tax their cars
200,000 of us will be at work - many on the minimum wage
95,000 people will eat Christmas lunch in the air as they travel to some far-flung destination.
One in three pets will receive a present - for 7% of them it will be clothes!
Christmas Day will see 120% increase in claims for a fire at home. With many people drinking from 9.00am there are numerous cases of people starting a fire whilst cooking the dinner.
On December 25 the average amount invested online in a savings account is just over £2000
Online sex shop 'Bondara' will see more than 30,000 visitors on Christmas Day
Last year John Lewis saw a 15% uplift of vacuum cleaner bags on Christmas Day
56% of people will check their work emails on Christmas Day
£76 million will be withdrawn via cash machines on Christmas Day
More than 4000 people will use Christmas Day to figure out how to challenge their parking fine online
There will be around 16,000 shops open
392 people bought a car on eBay last Christmas Day
1543 people will book a driving test
200 people will request life insurance quotes
674 people will die
1452 women will go into labour
A few people will probably bother to add things to blog sites!
Happy Christmas everyone
It all started in 2011 - we decided to ride Lands End to John O Groats, since then we've completed a number of 'challenges' raising over £15,000 for various charities. You can read about our adventures here, and also our on-going efforts to keep on cycling!
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