10 Interesting Facts About Christmas You Must Know

There are many bizarre and interesting facts about Christmas. For example, did you know that many zoos feed donated Christmas trees to their animals? Or that during Christmas there is a village in Peru where both young and old settle any outstanding grudges with fist fights? Wait until you see the rest of the cool Christmas facts found in our list! These are 10 bizarre and interesting facts about Christmas.

* Early illustrations of St. Nicholas make him out to be a stern symbol of discipline rather than the jolly, overweight elf that children know today.

* Engineers that designed the Voyager Space Mission planned things out so it would avoid planetary encounters during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

* There is a village in Peru where people settle the previous year's grudges by fist fighting. They then start the new year off on a clean slate.

* It is estimated that the song "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin is the best selling single in history with over 100 million copies sold.

* Paul McCartney earns nearly half a million dollars every year from his Christmas song, which many critics regards as his worst song ever.

* A large part of Sweden's population watches Donald Duck cartoons every Christmas Eve since 1960.

* Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S annually.

* Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.

* We frequently abbreviate Christmas as X-mas because of ancient tradition. X is the Greek letter “chi” which is an abbreviation for the word “Christ” in Greek.

* An artificial Christmas tree would have to be reused for more than 20 years to be “greener” than buying a fresh-cut tree annually.