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- The Nutcracker (Ballet) was adapted from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by German writer E.T.A. Hoffman.
- Over 1.76 billion candy canes are produced during Christmas.
- Alabama is the first state to give Christmas the status of holiday in 1836.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
- Holly berries are poisonous.
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
- There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
- Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
- Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees.
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