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- 54 % of holiday cards use the text "Merry Christmas", 12% use "Season's Greetings", and 21% say "Happy Holidays"
- 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.
- There are more classic movies, productions, and songs played during Christmas than any other time of the year.
- 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.
- Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
- The White House will have 780 feet of garland, 27 Christmas trees, 232 wreaths and 412 poinsettias.
- The White House will have 780 feet of garland, 27 Christmas trees, 232 wreaths and 412 poinsettias.
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