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- Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message to the nation was first televised on December 25, 1957.
- The National Christmas Tree Association gives a Christmas tree to the President and first family every year.
- Since 1925, America's official national Christmas tree is located in King's Canyon National Park in California.
- The first person to bring a Christmas tree into a house may have been the 16th century German preacher, Martin Luther.
- Mark Carr of New York started first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States, in 1851.
- Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message to the nation was first televised on December 25, 1957.
- In New York, it's not officially Christmastime until the tree is lit at Rockefeller Center. The first tree appeared in 1931.
- More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
- Approximately 33% of the holiday cards purchased each year contain a religious message.
- 85% of people in the United States mail holiday cards each year.
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