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- More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs.
- The day after Christmas, December 26, is known as Boxing Day. It is also the holy day called The Feast of St. Stephen.
- Holly berries are poisonous.
- In New York, it's not officially Christmastime until the tree is lit at Rockefeller Center. The first tree appeared in 1931.
- Over 1.76 billion candy canes are produced during Christmas.
- St. Francis of Assisi introduced the singing of carols to holiday church services.
- Two years before directing a "A Christmas Story," Bob Clark had a hit with "Porky's."
- 54 % of holiday cards use the text "Merry Christmas", 12% use "Season's Greetings", and 21% say "Happy Holidays"
- The "Urn of Fate" is part of the Christmas Eve celebrations in many Italian households. It holds a wrapped present.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
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