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	- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
 
	- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
 
	- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
 
	- Holly berries are poisonous.
 
	- "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health.
 
	- In 16th-century Germany fir trees were decorated with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored paper.
 
	- An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and receive 28 in return
 
	- Two years before directing a "A Christmas Story," Bob Clark had a hit with "Porky's."
 
	- Oregon produces the most real Christmas trees at over 8.6 million.
 
	- "White Christmas" (1954), starring Bing Crosby, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
 
 
		   
		   
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