During the Christmas season, almost 28 LEGO sets are sold every second.
1 in 3 Jews in the U.S. put up a Christmas tree in their home during the holiday season, a survey found.
The first plastic Christmas trees were produced by a toilet brush manufacturer. They used the same bristles, they just dyed them green.
About 200 Christmas trees catch fire every year in the U.S.
In Japan, Christmas Eve is a time to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.
The writers of “The Christmas Song”, “White Christmas”, and “I'll Be Home For Christmas” were Jewish.
To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound.
President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up by a week, so that the Christmas shopping season could start earlier.
The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
In Catalonia (Spain), a smiley-faced piece of wood called "Shitting Log" poops out the presents in Christmas.
New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.
British people say "Happy Christmas" because in the 19th century the word "merry" also meant "intoxicated" so they wanted to separate it from public insobriety.
Christmas was illegal in the U.S. until 1836 as it was considered an Ancient Pagan Holiday.
Every Christmas, 1 million letters are addressed to Santa Claus at his own postal code:
"H0H 0H0, North Pole, Canada."
Christmas ham, originally a pagan tradition, was endorsed by the Catholic Church as a test of truthful conversion from Judaism.
In some European countries, children are given gifts on December 6 rather than in Christmas Day.
In Japan, KFC is a typical feast of Christmas Eve.
Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle, Sweden, erects a giant straw goat for Christmas, and almost every year, vandals burn it.
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