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- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be good luck!
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
- Holly berries are poisonous.
- American mistletoe, is one of 1,300 species of mistletoe worldwide - only two are native to the United States.
- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- In 1948, the most popular Christmas Toy in the U.S. was the Scrabble board game.
- The inventor of the Christmas "cracker" or bon-bon was Tom Smith who owned a sweet shop in London.
- The Post Office expects to deliver 20 Billion pieces of mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.
- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
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