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- Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees.
- Thomas Nast found inspiration for his painting of Santa Claus from Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas."
- The 2009 White House Blue Room Christmas Tree is an 18 1/2-by-13-foot Douglas fir.
- Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska.
- Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
- The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has more than 25,000 lights but no other ornaments except for the star on top.
- Kwanzaa is celebrated fom December 26 to January 1 and involves seven principles called Nguzo Saba
- Christmas caroling began as an old English custom called Wassailing--wishing neighbors a long and healthy life.
- If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.
- "Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion.
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