25 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS :
》As 2k17 is at its end and Christmas is one of the most important festival before New Year . We all love to celebrate Christmas but let us make this Christmas interesting . Here are some of the interesting facts releated with Christmas which most of us don't know . So, just start reading and enjoy and share this article to your friends and family too .
■ Santa Claus is based on a real person , St. Nikolas of Myra ( also known as Nikolas the Wonderworker and Bishop Saint Nicholas ) . No one knows that he is the world's most popular non - Biblical Saint .
■ President Teddy Roosevelt , an enviromentaliest, banned Christmas Trees From The White House in year 1901 , for saving that trees from being cut .
■ There are approximately 21,000 Christmas tree farms in the United States . There nearly 45 million Christmas tree were planted every year and 400 million existing Christmas tree are currently there to be found .
■ There are more than 35 million living Christmas trees are sold out in United States every year .
■ In the year 1962 , the first Christmas postage stamp was issued on the United States .
■ During Christmas eve 28 sets of LEGO are sold in every second .
■ According to a report Christmas purchase account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S every year .
■ The first Christmas card was invented by British illustrator John Callcott Horsley in year 1843 .
■ The first reference to a Christmas tree was in 1531 in Germany .
■ The last U.S state to decleare Christmas a legal holiday , was Oklahoma in year 1907 .
■ Until 26 June 1870 Christmas wasn't declared an official holiday in United States.
■ The first state in the United States which officially recognised Christmas was Alabama in year 1836 .
■ The British wear paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner . The crowns are stored in a tube called " Christmas cracker".
■ As according to the Guinness World Record , the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 21 foot tall Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Centre , in Seattle, Washington.
■ The Green , Red and Gold are the three traditional colors of Christmas , where Green is the symbol of life and rebirth whereas Red is the symbol of blood of Christ and Gold is the symbol of light as well as wealth and royalty.
■ As according to a report the rate of suicide on Christmas holiday are and the rate increase during springs .
■ Well many of the European countries belive that both good and bad spirits were active during 12 days of Christmas .
■ Every year there are approximately 20,000 "rent-a-Santas" across United States . "RENT-A-SANTA" usually undergo seasonal training on how to maintain training on how to maintain jolly attitude under pressure from public .
■ Well Christmas has its roots in pagan festivals such as Saturnalia from December 17 to December 23 .
■ The Puritan Oliver Cromwell outlawed Christmas celebrations and carols in England from 1649-1660 . The only celebrations allowed were sermons and players .
■ Wassail is from the Old Norse vessels heill , meaning "good health".
■ There are two competing claims as to which president was first to place Christmas tree in the white House . Some of the scholars say President Franklin Pierce did in 1856 but it other hand some of them say President Benjamin Harrison brought the first tree in 1889 . President Coolidge started the White House lighting ceremony in 1923 .
■ Christmas is a contraction of "Christ's Mass" , which was derived from the Old English Cristes Maesse which was first recorded in 1083 .
■ The letter "X" in Greek is the first letter of Christ , and "XMAS" has been used as an abbreviation for Christmas since the mid 1500s.
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Article By : Rajat Mishra .
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