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- Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
- During the Christmas/Hanukkah season, more than 1.76 billion candy canes will be made.
- Since 1933, the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular has been a mainstay for the holidays in New York City.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
- In 1610 Tinsel, made of real silver, was invented in Germany.
- The U.S. is home to approximately 3,000 greeting card publishers.
- In 1948, the Marine Corps adopted the Toys for Tots program and extended it across the nation.
- The world's first singing Christmas commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal.
- Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message to the nation was first televised on December 25, 1957.
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