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- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
- The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
- The first president to decorate the White House Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.
- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be good luck!
- In Roman times, holiday gift giving was popular during Saturnalia, a winter solstice celebration.
- The U.S. is home to approximately 3,000 greeting card publishers.
- If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.
- 92 volunteers from 24 states, as well as residence staff, spent 3,400 hours decorating the White House.
- Arthur Rankin, Jr., and Jules Bass achieved fame in 1964 with their animated version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
- The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has more than 25,000 lights but no other ornaments except for the star on top.
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