10 Facts About Christmas: It’s December! The time of the year most of us look forward to. It is the month of celebrations, joy and most importantly it is Christmas month.
Christmas festival which falls in December is the most widely celebrated across the world. The best of Christmas is gifts, picturesque Christmas decorum, and bonanzas.
Here are some facts about Christmas festival and its celebration that you probably did not know.
10 Facts About Christmas
- Christmas was considered a Pagan festival. Christmas became a festival in the US in 1840 and was made a public holiday later in 1870
- The Christmas tree is symbolized as the ‘Tree of Paradise’. The Christmas tree went viral when a drawing of Prince Albert of Germany and his wife, Queen Victoria of England appeared in an illustrated London News in 1848 in front of a Christmas tree
- Traditionally, Christmas trees are decorated with apples, nuts, and red paper strips
- One of the important facts about Christmas is, the idea of Santa Claus came from St. Nicholas, who served the needy. His Dutch name Sinterklaas later morphed into Santa Claus
- There are so many towns named Santa Claus in Georgia, Indian, the United States, Finland, and Indiana
- Canada assigned a mailing post to Santa where people can write letters and the postal code is ‘H0H0H0’
- Rudolph was a marketing ploy that first appeared in 1939 when a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store wrote a Christmas story for a promotional gimmick
- One of the interesting facts about Christmas is, the most recorded Christmas song in history is ‘Silent Night’, with over 733 different versions copyrighted since 1978
- During Christmas, a fighting festival is held in Peru to settle the disputes and celebrate the new year
- Last but not least in the ten facts about Christmas is, Santa Claus was introduced in the pop culture at the end of the 18th century
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