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The stockings tradition came from St. Nicholas who once dropped gold coins in a widower's chimney to help which landed in girls’ stockings and that’s how it became the tradition.
Santa has its own code in Canada. The code "H0H 0H0" is designated to Santa in the north pole and the letters written to Santa on that code never came unanswered.
Christmas was never on 25th December according to the bible. December 25 was chosen by the Roman Church in the 4th century to align with pagan winter festivals.
Santa’s image of an old jolly bearded man in red came from the Coca-Cola advertisement in 1931.
The most popular Christmas song “Jingle bells” was not the Christmas song, it was a Thanksgiving song named “One Horse Open Sleigh” .
Eating KFC on Christmas Eve is a popular tradition in Japan, thanks to a successful 1974 ad campaign called "Kentucky for Christmas."
“Silent Night” by Franz Xaver Gruber was the most recorded song out of all the Christmas classics.
The tallest Christmas tree ever displayed was a 221-foot Douglas fir in Seattle, Washington, in 1950.