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- The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has more than 25,000 lights but no other ornaments except for the star on top.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
- Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
- Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message to the nation was first televised on December 25, 1957.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
- The first person to bring a Christmas tree into a house may have been the 16th century German preacher, Martin Luther.
- The Nutcracker (Ballet) was adapted from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by German writer E.T.A. Hoffman.
- There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
- There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
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