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- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
- Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees.
- The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
- Over 73 million new Christmas trees will be planted this year.
- In Mexico (its original birthplace), the poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night."
- "White Christmas" (1954), starring Bing Crosby, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
- The first person to bring a Christmas tree into a house may have been the 16th century German preacher, Martin Luther.
- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- During the Christmas buying season, Visa Cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the U.S.
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