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- Holly berries are poisonous.
- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be good luck!
- In the Kwanzaa ritual, seven candles called Mishumaa Saba are placed in a Kinara, or candleholder.
- There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
- The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531.
- 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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