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- More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs.
- The day after Christmas, December 26, is known as Boxing Day. It is also the holy day called The Feast of St. Stephen.
- Holly berries are poisonous.
- In New York, it's not officially Christmastime until the tree is lit at Rockefeller Center. The first tree appeared in 1931.
- Sugar Plums are chocolate candies that are filled with fruit preservatives or other sweet cream fillings.
- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
- 54 % of holiday cards use the text "Merry Christmas", 12% use "Season's Greetings", and 21% say "Happy Holidays"
- In 1948, the most popular Christmas Toy in the U.S. was the Scrabble board game.
- The White House will have 780 feet of garland, 27 Christmas trees, 232 wreaths and 412 poinsettias.
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