- A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.
- A family tradition President Franklin Roosevelt insisted on performing every Christmas Eve was sitting beside the fire, he read aloud the Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol," exuberantly acting out all the parts.
- A Rose was pictured on the first stamp printed for the Christmas season
- A snowflake has 6 sides
- A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
- According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.
- According to historical accounts, the first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated 200 years before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country for the western world, likely between the years 1280 and 1320 AD.
- According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Americans buy 37.1 million real Christmas trees each year; 25 percent of them are from the nation's 5,000 choose-and-cut farms.
- According to the song, "Frosty The Snowman" Frosty has a jolly happy soul!
- After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote several other Christmas stories, one each year, but none was as successful as the original.
- After '8 maids a-milking' in the song 'The 12 Days of Christmas' comes 9 ladies dancing
- After achieving the first manned lunar orbit, the crew of Apollo 8 celebrated Christmas Eve by reading from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis on December 24, 1968. The event was broadcast around the world.
- After red and green, silver and gold are the two most popular Christmas colours
- Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday. This tradition began in 1836.
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