Tag: fun fact
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Christmas Fun Fact #4
Ugly Christmas sweaters reached peak popularity sometime during the 80s and became a Christmas party trend in 2001. From 2001 onwards, people would wear colorful holiday sweaters ironically in honor of the Christmas season.
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Christmas Fun Fact #3
35 million potted poinsettia plants are sold in the U.S. every year, making them the most popular potted plant in the U.S. Poinsettias are actually a Mexican plant that flowers in the winter. Its U.S. name comes from the US Ambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett, who introduced the flower in 1825.
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Christmas Fun Fact #2
Why do we kiss under mistletoe? In an old Norse legend, Frigga, the goddess of love, had a son named Baldr. To protect her beloved son, Frigga made every creature and everything promise not to harm him, with the exception of mistletoe. The trickster god, Loki, learned this and tricked Hoth, Baldr’s blind brother, into…
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