- Santa is licensed to deliver babies
- Rudolph's nose is red due to scarring from a childhood case of chicken pox
- Originally, palm trees were used as Christmas trees. Pine trees came to be used instead because too many children were being injured by falling coconuts
- Due to a transcribing error, what the Three Wise Men actually brought Baby Jesus was poles, canvas tents and shirts. We think they may have actually been Scouts
- This Christmas, instead of Jesus, try praying to Carrus, the Roman god of parking
- On Dec 23, 8 million people will descend on Chadstone. The population of Melbourne is 4 million...
- Carols began to be held by candlelight (a scaled back version of the traditional torch) after Dr. Frankenstein found problems with having large groups of people with flaming torches
- 132 metric tonnes of food will be consumed by Melburnians on Christmas Day. The Melbourne Sewerage Farm spends 6 weeks preparing for this day
- Boxing Day is named for Arthur Boxing, former garbage collector from the town of Bodington, England, who would collect all the discarded wrapping paper from the town on December 26 and use it to make a series of frocks which he wore later in the town's spring fashion parade
- It's famously said that "Christmas comes but once a year", but in 1582, with the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, it actually came twice!
Here's looking forward to an awesome year ahead. I promise I will try and post more regularly this year!
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