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- The National Christmas Tree Association gives a Christmas tree to the President and first family every year.
- The "Urn of Fate" is part of the Christmas Eve celebrations in many Italian households. It holds a wrapped present.
- 92 volunteers from 24 states, as well as residence staff, spent 3,400 hours decorating the White House.
- The world's first singing Christmas commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
- Alabama is the first state to give Christmas the status of holiday in 1836.
- Mark Carr of New York started first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States, in 1851.
- The first official White House card was issued in the year of 1953 by President Eisenhower.
- "Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving but later became one of the most popular Christmas songs.
- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be good luck!
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