10 silly season facts you may not know
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Good things come to those who wait
Christmas trees usually grow for about 15 years before they are sold.
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Tinsel
Did you know that tinsel was once made out of real silver? It was invented in Germany in 1610.
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Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving not Christmas, by James Pierpont in 1857.
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Christmas meal tradition
The traditional Christmas meal in England before turkey was a pig’s head served with mustard.
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Boxing Day
Boxing Day was originally celebrated in England, for the servants to the rich people. After Christmas, the servants “boxed up” all the left-overs from the rich people and brought them home.
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Christmas horror stories
Telling scary ghost stories is an old Christmas Eve tradition that has died out in the past century.
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Decorative mishaps
During the lead up to Christmas there are at least 15,000 people sent to the hospital from holiday-related decorating accidents.
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Peace on Earth
In 1914 during World War I there was a now famous Christmas truce in the trenches between the British and the Germans. They exchanged gifts across a neutral no man’s land, played football together, and decorated their shelters. (Christmas Day truce in 1914. Opposing battalions downed weapons to mark the holiday Credit: PA)
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Christmas hit written by 13 year old
Brenda Lee recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” when she was only 13 years old.
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Italian festive feast
In Italy, Christmas dinner can last for more than 4 hours as most of the Italian families have more than 7 courses for dinner.
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