Once again, I’ve found a fun list of facts on BuzzFeed! They’ve shared a list of 18 Christmas facts your probably didn’t even realize you wanted to know. Here are 10 of them, and you can find the full list here.
- In 2010, a goat farmer found that his goats produced more milk when they listened to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
- Ralphie from A Christmas Story (Peter Billingsley) was an executive producer on Iron Man.
- Artificial Christmas trees were invented by a toilet brush company.
- Santa Claus is one of the most powerful mutants in X-Men, and once wielded the Infinity Gauntlet to make his Christmas Eve deliveries.
- In the song “12 Days of Christmas,” the sum of all of the presents equals 364. That’s a present every day of the year except for Christmas!
- Santa gets tipsy in Ireland because it’s tradition for kids to leave out a pint of Guinness instead of milk and cookies.
- It used to be a criminal offense to celebrate Christmas in Boston.
- Elephants eat Christmas trees.
- KFC is so popular for Christmas dinner in Japan that people have to pre-order their dinners.
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas has a prequel called Halloween is Grinch Night.
