Some of the Christmas Facts to share.
- In Greek, X means Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" comes from. Not because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.
- Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
- According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Americans buy 37.1 million real Christmas trees each year.
- "Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.
- The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.
- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
- During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.
- The biggest selling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
- Christmas Carols were banned by Oliver Cromwell, in England between 1649 and 1660. Cromwell thought that Christmas should be a very solemn day so he banned carols and parties.
- In 1856, President Franklin Pierce decorated the first White House Christmas tree.
- At midnight on Christmas Eve 1914 firing from the German trenches suddenly stopped. A German brass band began playing Christmas carols. Early, Christmas morning, the German soldiers came out of their trenches, calling "Merry Christmas".
At first the allied soldiers thought it was a trick, but they soon climbed out of their trenches and shook hands with the German soldiers. The truce lasted a few days, and the men exchanged presents of cigarettes and plum puddings, sang carols and songs. They even played a game of Soccer.
- "Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is history.
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