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- Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
- Sugar Plums are chocolate candies that are filled with fruit preservatives or other sweet cream fillings.
- RKO Pictures bought the movie rights to "White Christmas" in 1946 for $10,000.
- Since 1933, the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular has been a mainstay for the holidays in New York City.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
- In 1610 Tinsel, made of real silver, was invented in Germany.
- Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
- The White House will have 780 feet of garland, 27 Christmas trees, 232 wreaths and 412 poinsettias.
- The world's first singing Christmas commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal.
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