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- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
- Electric lights for trees were first used in the White House in 1895.
- 54 % of holiday cards use the text "Merry Christmas", 12% use "Season's Greetings", and 21% say "Happy Holidays"
- Six of the trees on display in the White House are live trees that will be planted after the holidays.
- The first president to decorate the White House Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.
- The traditional flaming Christmas pudding dates back to 1670 in England.
- The traditional flaming Christmas pudding dates back to 1670 in England.
- "It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
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