Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
- Christmas was illegal in the U.S. until 1836 as it was considered an Ancient Pagan Holiday.
- Every Christmas, 1 million letters are addressed to Santa Claus at his own postal code: "H0H 0H0, North Pole, Canada."
- The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
- During the Christmas season, almost 28 LEGO sets are sold every second.
- In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
- 1 in 3 Jews in the U.S. put up a Christmas tree in their home during the holiday season,
- a survey found.
- In some European countries, children are given gifts on December 6 rather than in Christmas Day.
- About 200 Christmas trees catch fire every year in the U.S.
- In Japan, KFC is a typical feast of Christmas Eve.
- New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.
- British people say "Happy Christmas" because in the 19th century the word "merry" also meant "intoxicated" so they wanted to separate it from public insobriety.
- The first plastic Christmas trees were produced by a toilet brush manufacturer. They used the same bristles, they just dyed them green.
- Christmas ham, originally a pagan tradition, was endorsed by the Catholic Church as a test of truthful conversion from Judaism.
- The writers of “The Christmas Song”, “White Christmas”, and “I'll Be Home For Christmas” were Jewish.
- To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound.
- President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up by a week, so that the Christmas shopping season could start earlier.
- In Japan, Christmas Eve is a time to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.
- Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle, Sweden, erects a giant straw goat for Christmas, and almost every year, vandals burn it.