Happy Thoughts - 12 Surprising and Fun Christmas Facts to Light Up Your Holidays

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Today we've got 12 fun facts about Christmas to keep you amused & enlightened!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi is Stefania over positive informations and audio stories bringing
you happy thoughts, motivation and inspiration to help you live
the positive lifestyle that you deserve. And we throw a
bit of entertainment in their raw. To day, we've got

(00:21):
a short holiday episode in case you're busy. Maybe you
don't know this. This is about twelve surprising Christmas facts
that are going to light up your holidays. I wonder
how many of these you know. Fact number one the

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tradition of putting up a Christmas tree originated in Germany
in the sixteenth century. Yeah that number two. Jingle bells.
This might be a real eye opener. Jingle Bells was Forbritten,
originally for Thanksgiving, not Christmas. The song was originally published

(01:10):
under the title The One Horse Open Sleigh in September
eighteen fifty seven. Fact three. The world's largest Christmas stocking
measured get ready, one hundred and six feet and nine
inches long and forty nine feet and one inch wide.

(01:35):
Fat Number four. In Iceland, there's a tradition of exchanging
books on Christmas Eve and spending the night reading them
with loved ones. That sounds like a nice cozy one.
Fact number five the classic Christmas song White Christmas was
written by Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant to the United States.

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Number six, the largest gingerbread house ever made was over
sixty feet long and contained an estimated thirty five point
eight million calories. How much after dinner walking would you

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have to do to work off those galleries? I wonder?
And here's Number seven. In Poland, spiders are considered symbols
of good luck and prosperity at Christmas. Some people even
decorate their trees with spider ornaments. Moving on. Number eight.

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The iconic red and white image of Santa Claus was
popularized by Coca Cola advertisements from the nineteen thirties. Okay,
this is a real ipop. Number nine. The most expensive

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Christmas decoration ever sold was a diamond encrusted Christmas tree,
worth fifteen million dollars. Moving along, something for the tomb.

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The U log. The U log of traditional Christmas dessert
dates back to ancient times, when people would burn a
large log on the hearth to symbolize the return of
the sun after the winter solstice. Number eleven. In Japan,

(03:52):
many people eat KFC on Christmas Day. Thanks to a
successful marketing campaign in the nineteen seventies, k f C
Kentucky Fried Chicken and our very very very last one
fact number twelve. The first Christmas card was designed by

(04:15):
John Calcott Horsley in eighteen forty three for Sir Henry Cole,
who was a business man, a British businessman and a
patron of art. And those are our twelve fascinating fun

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Christmas facts. How many of em did you know? If
you know some facts that we didn't cover, feel free
to place them in the comments section on speaker or
wherever it is that you listen to the podcast, Spotify
whatever were on most major podcasts, apps and platforms. And

(05:00):
if you want a little more fun, if you'd like
to see this infographic and you can download it, go
to our coffee page. You'll find the website address in
the show notes. And that's it for now, wishing you
a truly happy holiday season. And if the holiday season

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isn't turning out quite like you envisioned it, that's okay.
It doesn't mean you're a bad person, you did something wrong,
you're pulling on bad karma. It's just the way it is.
And just try to breathe mentally and spiritually and let

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it pass over you. Christmas is just one day. Many
blessings to your happy holidays, and we'll see you back
in January. Bye for now.