Some of you may be attending Christmas Parties this coming Holiday Season. Worried that you wont have something to talk about? Here are some conversation starters! 4. The U.S. Postal Service delivers 20 billion cards and packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. 5. Rudolph first alighted on the holiday scene in 1939, when in-store Santas at Montgomery Ward stores distributed 2.4 million copies of the booklet “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” written by Robert L. May, a copywriter for the company. After executives vetoed the original name, Rollo, May’s young daughter suggested Rudolph. 6. The Löschner family of Neuhausen, Germany, owns the biggest nutcracker collection: 4,334. It is said that German craftsmen made the first decorative nutcrackers around 1800 as a way of mocking authority figures, leading to the phrase “a hard nut to crack.” There are more on the website below. realsimple/holidays-entertaining/holidays/twelve-lists-christmas/holiday-fun-facts
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:13:00 +0000
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