Christmas Fact: Christmas trees usually grow for 15
years before they are cut and sold.
Christmas Fact: The oldest tree used in Rockefeller Center
was a 10 ton 100 year old Norway
spruce. It was
100 feet tall.
Christmas Fact: The US Postal Service delivers roughly 15.8
billion cards, letters and packages between
Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve every
year.
Christmas Fact: “Jingle Bells” was originally titled “One
Horse Open Sleigh”
Christmas Fact: The tallest snowman was 113 feet tall and
built in Maine.
Christmas Fact: The first
artificial Christmas trees were made out of dyed goose
feathers in Germany.
Christmas Fact: All the gifts in
the Twelve Days of Christmas
would equal 364 gifts.
Christmas Fact: Artificial
Christmas trees have outsold real ones since 1991.
Christmas Fact: Christmas has
different meanings around the world; Christmas Eve in Japan is a day to eat fried chicken and strawberry shortcake.
Christmas Fact: Five months into
the first World War, troops along the Western front took a Christmas Eve break from fighting to sing carols to
one another across the battlefield.
Christmas Fact: According to
Celtic and Teutonic legend, mistletoe is magical — it can heal wounds, bring good luck and ward off evil spirits.
Christmas Fact: Coca-Cola was the
first company to use Santa Claus in a winter ad.
Christmas Fact: “In the meadow we
can build a Snowman, and pretend that he is Parson Brown.” The Parson Brown
referred to is the not someone’s first and last name, but rather someone who is
a Parson with the last name Brown. A parson was a traveling protestant minister
who performed weddings, thus the lyric: “He’ll say are you married?’ We’ll say
‘no man,’ but you can do the job while you’re in town.”
Christmas Fact: A spider web found
on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck in the
Ukraine.
Christmas Fact: It is still believed
in Britain that eating a mince pie on each of the Twelve Days of Christmas will
bring 12 months of happiness.
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