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- Over 100,000 people are employed in the Christmas tree industry.
- Lauscha, a Germany company, started producing glass bead garlands for Christmas Trees in the 1850s.
- "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
- During the Christmas buying season, Visa Cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the U.S.
- Edward H. Johnson created 80 red, white, and blue electrical light bulbs in 1882.
- During the Christmas/Hanukkah season, more than 1.76 billion candy canes will be made.
- The World's Largest Cut Christmas Tree was a 221 ft Douglas fir in Seattle, in December 1950.
- The American version of St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus originally came from the Dutch version called Sint Klaas.
- Since 1925, America's official national Christmas tree is located in King's Canyon National Park in California.
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