Christmas was illegal in the U.S. until 1836 as it was considered an Ancient Pagan Holiday.
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Every Christmas, 1 million letters are addressed to Santa Claus
at his own postal code:
"H0H 0H0, North Pole, Canada."
"H0H 0H0, North Pole, Canada."
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The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
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During the Christmas season, almost 28 LEGO sets are sold every second.
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In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
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1 in 3 Jews in the U.S. put up a Christmas tree in their home during the holiday season, a survey found.
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In some European countries, children are given gifts on December 6 rather than in Christmas Day.
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About 200 Christmas trees catch fire every year in the U.S.
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In Japan, KFC is a typical feast of Christmas Eve.
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New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.
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British people say "Happy Christmas" because in the 19th century the word "merry" also meant "intoxicated" so they wanted to separate it from public insobriety.
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The first plastic Christmas trees were produced by a toilet brush manufacturer. They used the same bristles, they just dyed them green.
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Christmas ham, originally a pagan tradition, was endorsed by the Catholic Church as a test of truthful conversion from Judaism.
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The writers of “The Christmas Song”, “White Christmas”, and “I'll Be Home For Christmas” were Jewish.
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To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound.
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President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up by a week, so that the Christmas shopping season could start earlier.
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In Japan, Christmas Eve is a time to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.
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Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle, Sweden, erects a giant straw goat for Christmas, and almost every year, vandals burn it.
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