Christmas Fun Facts
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Thirty-four to thirty-six million Christmas trees are produced
each year and 95 percent are shipped or sold directly from Christmas
tree farms.
- The best selling trees are Scotch Pine, Douglas Fir, Noble
Fir, Fraser Fir, Virginia Pine, Balsam Fir and White Pine.
- Winter was a time of celebration to pre-Christian Romans and
they decorated fir trees in honor of this seasonal change.
- The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front
door, mantel or bay window symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life
to all who enter.
- In 1836, Alabama was the first state in the USA to declare
Christmas a legal holiday.
- Due to the time zones, Santa has 31 hours to deliver gifts,
and not just 24!
- Epiphany, January 6th, is the traditional end of the Christmas
holiday and is the date on which we take down the tree and
decorations. To do so earlier is thought to bring bad luck for the
rest of the year. From the middle ages until the mid-nineteenth
century, Twelfth Night was more popular than Christmas day, and even
today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most important day of
the Christmas season.
- Three years after Thomas Edison invented the electric light
bulb in 1879, Edward H. Johnson, who worked for Edison's company, had
Christmas tree bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his
electric tree lights at his home on Fifth Avenue, New York City. They
caused a sensation although some years were to pass before
mass-manufactured Christmas tree lights were widely available.
- In America in 1822, the postmaster of Washington, DC,
complained that he had to add 16 mailmen at Christmas to deal with
cards alone. He wanted the number of cards a person could send limited
by law. "I don't know what we'll do if this keeps on," he wrote.
- Santa actually originated from Finland not the North Pole.
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