these festive facts?

> Jingle Bells was originally a Thanksgiving tune called The One

Horse Open Sleigh and written by James Pierpont, an organist who first performed it at a Thanksgiving concert in his church.

> Santa Claus has had his own postal code in Canada since 1982. Each letter Santa receives via the “H0H0H 0H0” postaltl code iss answered in the original language it was wrritten in. Alternaatively, childrenn can post thheir letters to the Main Post Office, Tähtikuja 1, 96930 Arctic Circle, Finlandd, and receive a response with an official ppostmark.

> How The Grinch Stole Christmas

starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch is the highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time.

> Santa Claus has different names around the world including Kriss Kringle in Germany, Le Befana in Italy, Pere Noel in France and Deushka Moroz in Russia.

> The Germans started the Christmas tree tradition in the mid16th century. In 1846, Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert were sketched in the Illustrated London News in front of a Christmas tree, sparkingpg its popularity. > Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was a marketing gimmick inventted for a promotionn in 1938 to encourage children to buy a US firm’s Christmas colouring bookss. > France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States on Christmas Day in 1886. It weighs 225 tonnes and is probably the biggest Christmas present in the world.

> Several countries such as Italy and Brazil have mandated a law to ensure workers get a month’smonths salary for Christmas.