Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 25 Dec 2007 11:00 am
Fact-A-Day from Harry K. - December 25, 2007
In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.
- “White Christmas” is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time.
- Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
“The Nutcracker” is the name for the ballet performed around Christmas time each year. “The Nutcracker Suite” is the title of the music Tchaikovsky wrote.- “Wassail” comes from the Old Norse “ves heill”—to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.
- A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
- According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.
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