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- Mark Carr of New York started first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States, in 1851.
- The "Urn of Fate" is part of the Christmas Eve celebrations in many Italian households. It holds a wrapped present.
- 92 volunteers from 24 states, as well as residence staff, spent 3,400 hours decorating the White House.
- The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has more than 25,000 lights but no other ornaments except for the star on top.
- The day after Christmas, December 26, is known as Boxing Day. It is also the holy day called The Feast of St. Stephen.
- The Post Office expects to deliver 20 Billion pieces of mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.
- More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs.
- The first president to decorate the White House Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.
- The World's Largest Cut Christmas Tree was a 221 ft Douglas fir in Seattle, in December 1950.
- In 1948, the most popular Christmas Toy in the U.S. was the Scrabble board game.
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