Some interesting and fun facts about Christmas - Share and stump your co-workers and friends! 🎄The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty 🎁If you received all the gifts from the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” you would have 364 presents 🎅According to data analyzed from Facebook posts, two weeks before Christmas is one of the two most popular times for couples to break up. However, Christmas Day is the least favorite day for breakups 🎄In June of 1970 Christmas became a federal holiday in the US 🎁According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are 2,106 million children under age 18 in the world. If there are on average 2.5 children per household, Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles. To reach all 842 million stops, Santa would need to travel between houses in 2/10,000 second, which means he would need to accelerate 12.19 million miles (20.5 billion meters) per second on each stop. The force of this acceleration would reduce Santa to “chunky salsa 🎅Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday, and the tradition began in 1836 🎄There are 3 towns in the US that are named Santa Claus. They are located in Georgia, Arizona and Indiana. There is also a Santa, Idaho 🎁Christmas has different meanings around the world; Christmas Eve in Japan is a good day to eat fried chicken and strawberry shortcake 🎅The earliest known Christmas tree decorations were apples. At Christmastime, medieval actors would use apples to decorate paradise trees (usually fir trees) during “Paradise Plays,” which were plays depicting Adam and Eve’s creation and fall 🎄It is estimated that the single “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin is the best selling single of all time, with over 100 million sales worldwide 🎁Santa Claus is also known as St. Nicholas, Father Christmas, Grandfather Frost and Kris Kringle 🎅“Silent Night” was first sung as part of a church service in Austria. A guitar was used because the church organ was so badly rusted it couldn’t be played 🎄In North America, children put stockings out at Christmas time. Their Dutch counterparts use shoes 🎁The tradition of naughty children getting a lump of coal in their stocking comes from Italy 🎅When distributing gifts in Holland, St. Nicholas is accompanied his servant, Black , who is responsible for actually dropping the presents down their recipients’ chimneys. He also punishes bad children by putting them in a bag and carrying them away to Spain
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