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Here are some fun facts about the Chrismas holiday:

• Jingle Bells was originally written as a song for Thansgiving.  It later became a very popular Christmas song.
• If you actually received all of the gifts named in the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” you would receive a total of 364 gifts!
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was originally created in the late 1930’s by Montgomery Ward as a marketing promotion for the holiday season.
• The word Christmas is an old English word, a contraction of Christ’s Mass.
• Franklin Pierce was the first US President to decorate the White House Christmas tree.
• Alabama was the first US state to officially recognize Christmas as a holiday.
• Christmas was declared a national holiday in the US on June 26, 1870.
• In Greek the “X” means Christ, that is how the word X-Mas was derived.
• In Mexico, wearing red underwear on New Year’s Eve is said to bring love in the new year.

Happy Holidays!