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- Over 100,000 people are employed in the Christmas tree industry.
- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
- "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
- The U.S. is home to approximately 3,000 greeting card publishers.
- Two years before directing a "A Christmas Story," Bob Clark had a hit with "Porky's."
- The inventor of the Christmas "cracker" or bon-bon was Tom Smith who owned a sweet shop in London.
- In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.
- Christmas trees take from 6 to 14 years to mature for harvest.
- The first person to bring a Christmas tree into a house may have been the 16th century German preacher, Martin Luther.
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