13 Christmas Facts You Didn’t Know

8. It’s interesting to note that although most of Santa’s reindeers have male names, like Blitzer, Comet, Rudolph and Cupid, they may actually be females because they all have antlers and the males of the species normally shed theirs during Christmas time.

9. Christmas trees are usually grown for about 15 years before they are ready to be cut and sold.

10. The extent of shopping madness during holiday season is so much in the US that Christmas purchases account for 1/6th of all retail sales in the country.

11.Almost 30-35 million living Christmas trees are sold in the US every year.

12.The then President of the US, Teddy Roosevelt, who was an environmentalist, had banned Christmas trees from the White House in 1912.

13. Until 1870, Christmas was not an official holiday in the US.