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- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be good luck!
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
- Holly berries are poisonous.
- "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health.
- In 16th-century Germany fir trees were decorated with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored paper.
- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- Two years before directing a "A Christmas Story," Bob Clark had a hit with "Porky's."
- Oregon produces the most real Christmas trees at over 8.6 million.
- "White Christmas" (1954), starring Bing Crosby, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
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