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- There are more classic movies, productions, and songs played during Christmas than any other time of the year.
- More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs.
- There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
- St. Francis of Assisi introduced the singing of carols to holiday church services.
- The 2009 White House Blue Room Christmas Tree is an 18 1/2-by-13-foot Douglas fir.
- "Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving but later became one of the most popular Christmas songs.
- 21% of US households have a real Christmas tree, 48% have an artificial tree and 32% do not have a Christmas tree.
- Alabama is the first state to give Christmas the status of holiday in 1836.
- Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska.
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