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- Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska.
- Six of the trees on display in the White House are live trees that will be planted after the holidays.
- In 1948, the Marine Corps adopted the Toys for Tots program and extended it across the nation.
- Christmas caroling began as an old English custom called Wassailing--wishing neighbors a long and healthy life.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
- Six of the trees on display in the White House are live trees that will be planted after the holidays.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
- The White House will have 780 feet of garland, 27 Christmas trees, 232 wreaths and 412 poinsettias.
- St. Francis of Assisi introduced the singing of carols to holiday church services.
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
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