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- Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.
- The U.S. is home to approximately 3,000 greeting card publishers.
- Doctor Maulana Karenga, a Professor at Cal State Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966.
- Mattel sells two Barbie dolls per second, and 90 percent of American girls have had at least one Barbie doll.
- More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs.
- Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.
- Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska.
- 1700s Europeans baked fruitcakes at the end of the harvest, then ate them at the beginning of the next year's harvest for good luck.
- Twenty-two million turkeys are consumed each year at Christmas, compared to 45 million at Thanksgiving.
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