10 interesting facts about Christmas

(Baonghean.vn) - Christmas is coming, the bustling atmosphere, cheerful songs, brightly decorated pine trees... have become too familiar, but do you really know everything about Christmas?

1. Song “Jingle Bells”

This was the first song played in space. On December 16, 1965, in space, the Gemini 6 astronauts joked to the ground control that they saw Santa Claus flying… a plane and played Jingle Bells on a harmonica and transmitted it from space to Earth.

2. Jesus

Although Christmas is celebrated to celebrate the birth of Jesus, in reality people do not know the actual date of his birth.

3. The Greatest Christmas Gift

The greatest Christmas gift ever given to America by France in 1886 was the Statue of Liberty.

4. Santa Claus

Santa Claus is also a Saint. He lived in Myra in the 300s. Myra is a place in present-day Türkiye. Saint Nicholas' German name is Sankt Niklaus.

5 - The first Christmas tree

The first Christmas tree wasn't actually a tree. The Germans made it from feathers from dead geese.

6. Christmas songs

The famous Christmas songs, “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree,” and “Holly Jolly Christmas” were written by Jewish songwriter Johnny Marks.

7 - Electric Christmas Lights

Electric Christmas lights were first used in 1882. Edward Johnson was an inventor, but he never created anything of value. The only highlight of his career was that he often worked with the legendary Thomas Edison. However, all this changed in 1882, when Johnson created the first electric Christmas lights, for his own home in New York. Although he would go on to create many groundbreaking inventions, these colorful flashing lights were enough to put Johnson on the long list of great American inventors.

8 - Socks

Christmas stockings originated from the story of three unmarried girls who washed their clothes and hung their stockings by the fireplace to dry. They could not marry because they had no dowry. However, Saint Nicholas knew of their plight and placed a bar of gold in their stockings, which they discovered when they woke up in the morning, so they could marry.

9- Candy cane

It appeared in Europe in 1670 but did not reach America until the 1800s. The shape of the candy cane today resembles the hook that Jesus used to tend his sheep and the color and string around it symbolize the purity and sacrifice of Jesus. The candy cane became popular in the mid-1900s.

10. Why are there 9 reindeer?

Santa's flying sleigh originally consisted of 8 reindeer, arranged in 2 rows. On Christmas Eve, Santa had difficulty delivering gifts to children because of the cold and foggy sky. Luckily, he discovered Rudolph - a reindeer with a glowing red nose. So Santa let Rudolph lead his sleigh. It was thanks to the reindeer's glowing red nose that helped him complete his Christmas Eve mission. From then on, there were 9 reindeer. According to legend, they could fly because Santa fed them magical cornmeal and oats.

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