Christmas Facts

Here are some interesting and fun facts about Christmas:

• In the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch for cuts a Santa beard out of felt, but never wears it.
• In a A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens initial choice for Scrooges statement " Bah Humbug!" was "Bah Christmas!".
• "Jingle Bells" was composed in 1857 by Jame4s Pierpont, and was origanally called "One Horse Open Sleigh".
• "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, is the greatest-selling Christmas song of all time, selling more than thirty million copies.
• The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie, were named for Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver in It's a Wonderful Life.
• The Christmas carol, 'The twelve Day of Christmas" was origninally writtern to help Catholic children in England to remember different articles of faith at a time they were being persecuted by Protestant monarchs. (More on this another time).
• In the Christmas carol "the Twelve Days of Christmas", the total number of gifts was 364. As of the year 2000, these gifts would cost some $60,000.

I thought these were interesting myself and will have more later. 'Till later.-

THE GREAT ONE