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5 Facts About Christmas Trees/Christmas That Will Blow Your Mind

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Do you already have your tree up and enjoying the twinkling lights? Mine has been up since after Halloween. (thanks wifey.)

But did you know there are things you had no idea about your tree?

Christmas fires (this scares the crap out of me and the reason why I have never had a real tree.)

Burning Christmas trees caused 170 U.S. house fires in 2015.

 

Christmas wasn’t really on December 25

Most historians posit that Jesus was born in the spring. (didn't know that)

Christmas was illegal (I tell my wife this every year)

From 1659 to 1681, anyone in Boston caught making merry would face a fine for celebrating.

X-mas (Why did they call it this?)

‘Christianity’ was spelled ‘Xianity’ as far back as 1100 — X, or Chi, in Greek, is the first letter of ‘Christ’ and served as a symbolic stand-in.

Now you can stump the know it all in your family. Good luck trying to sleep with some of these.


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