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- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
- Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
- RKO Pictures bought the movie rights to "White Christmas" in 1946 for $10,000.
- The first commemorative Christmas stamp was issued in Austria in 1937.
- In 1947, Toys for Tots organized its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters.
- In 16th-century Germany fir trees were decorated with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored paper.
- St. Francis of Assisi introduced the singing of carols to holiday church services.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
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