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- If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.
- In Roman times, holiday gift giving was popular during Saturnalia, a winter solstice celebration.
- Christmas trees take from 6 to 14 years to mature for harvest.
- The 2009 White House Christmas theme: 'Reflect, rejoice, renew'
- 1700s Europeans baked fruitcakes at the end of the harvest, then ate them at the beginning of the next year's harvest for good luck.
- The U.S. is home to approximately 3,000 greeting card publishers.
- "Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion.
- The Christmas tree can be traced back to the ancient Romans who decorated trees with small pieces of metal.
- The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has more than 25,000 lights but no other ornaments except for the star on top.
- In New York, it's not officially Christmastime until the tree is lit at Rockefeller Center. The first tree appeared in 1931.
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