Answer: Per estimates from the United States Postal Service, USPS mail carriers delivered more than 28 million packages every day between Dec. 16 and 21, 2019, and averaged 20.5 million packages per day through the remainder of the year. They projected 800 million packages reaching Americans' doorsteps between Thanksgiving 2019 and New Year’s Day 2020.
True or false: "Jingle Bells" was always intended to be a Christmas song.
Answer: False! The now-classic holiday tune "Jingle Bells" was written in the mid-19th century by James Pierpont while he experienced a bout of homesickness while living in Savannah, GA. Though debated, some believe it was originally written for the Thanksgiving program at his father's church.
Question: What two things made red and green popular Christmas colors?
Answer: Holly and Coca-Cola. While the tradition of red and green holly dates back to Roman winter solstice celebrations, the Coca-Cola company also played a role. The soda makers popularized the plump and jolly red-suit-wearing Santa in an ad in 1931, Arielle Eckstut, co-author of Secret Language of Color told NPR.
Question: How many Americans buy artificial Christmas trees?
Answer: More than 80 percent. In 2018, 82 percent of Christmas trees in American households were artificial, according to the American Christmas Tree Association.
Question: How long have candy canes been around for?
Answer: The first record of candy canes in America goes all the way back to 1847 when a German immigrant used them to decorate his holiday tree, according to the National Confectioners Association. (Prior to that, legend says they were invented in 1670 by a choirmaster in Cologne, Germany.) Nowadays, the iconic Christmas candy is a holiday staple with more than 1.2 billion produced and sold each year.
True or false: Sending Christmas cards is no longer a popular tradition.
Answer: False! Though numbers are down from previous years, over 1.6 billion cards are sold in stores around Christmas, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2016. Plus, there are even more that are handcrafted and mailed or sent digitally.
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