1. Scientists figured out that for Santa to deliver all the world’s gifts on Christmas Eve he would need to visit 822 homes a second traveling 650 miles a second or 2,340,000 miles per hour (3,765,865 kph)SW
2. Edward Johnson invented the first electrical tree lights in 1882.
3. Noel actually comes from the French phrase “les bonnes nouvelles” or “the good news”.
4. The word Christmas comes from the old English meaning Christ’s mass (Cristes maesse).
5. In December 1965 Jingle Bells was the first song broadcast in space from Gemini 6.
6. The first ever artificial Christmas tree was a German tree made of dyed goose feathers.
7. X-Mas actually has a meaning; the X stands for Christ and is a Greek abbreviation.
8. The first ever artificial Christmas tree was a German tree made of dyed goose feathers.
9. In the US, there is 3 Billion Christmas cards sold annually.
10. Christmas was first recognized in the US in 1836. The first state being Alabama and the last was Oklahoma in 1970.
11. In the 1950s Church leaders in Boston tried to ban the song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” as it supposedly promoted physical intimacy.
12. Spider’s webs are traditional Polish Christmas decorations, as the spiders wove a blanket for Jesus.
13. For an artificial tree to be more environmentally greener than a fresh tree, you would need to use it for 20 years.
14. In 1901, President Roosevelt banned Christmas trees in the White House.
15. The most expensive Christmas tree was constructed in 2010. It was worth £6,975,880($8,660,206) and was on display at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. It had 181 pieces of jewelry adorning it.
16. In Canada, letters sent to Santa go to postcode “H0H 0H0”.
17. The origin of the name Santa Claus has a convoluted tree. In Dutch St Nicholas became Sint-Niklaas or Sinter Klaas. Obviously from there it’s not a big leap to Santa Claus.
18. The highest-grossing Christmas movie is actually Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
19. Some zoos around the world take Christmas trees that are donated to feed their animals.
20. Christmas tree lights were first mass-produced in 1890 in the US.
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