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- 85% of people in the United States mail holiday cards each year.
- In 1948, the most popular Christmas Toy in the U.S. was the Scrabble board game.
- Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees.
- In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria.
- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- LED Christmas lights feature long lifetimes, low cost to operate and associated low maintenance.
- RKO Pictures bought the movie rights to "White Christmas" in 1946 for $10,000.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
- In Japan, Santa is called "Santa no ojisan," which means "Uncle Santa."
- The American version of St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus originally came from the Dutch version called Sint Klaas.
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