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Each year approximately 30-35 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States alone.
There are an estimated 21,000 Christmas tree farms in the U.S. and trees usually grow for 15 years before they are sold
The candles used for lighting Hanukah Menorah are supposed to burn for at least half an hour after the stars come out
Christmas wasn't a holiday in early America-in fact Congress was in session on December 25, 1789, the country's first Christmas under the new constitution.
The nine-branched candelabrum used on a Chanukah is a misnomer; it is actually called a chanukiah. The menorah is actually a seven-branched candelabrum
Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States on June 26, 1870
It takes 44 candles all together to observe all the eight nights of the Chanukah festival
Poinsettia plants are named after Joel R. Poinsett, an American minister to Mexico, who brought the red-and-green plant from Mexico to America in 1828
Rudolph, "the most famous reindeer of all," was the product of Robert L. May's imagination in 1939. The copywriter wrote a poem about the reindeer to help lure customers into the Montgomery Ward department store.
Construction workers started the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tradition in 1931.
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