#aaronplays #funfacts #christmasfact Although Christmas is all about traditions, there are plenty of very interesting and sometimes even weird things about this holiday. Do you know why Rudolph the reindeer has a red nose? What people eat for Christmas dinner in Japan? How does Santa stretch the time in order to deliver all the gifts in just one night? We collected the most interesting and bizarre Christmas facts from all over the world: this holiday can be very surprising!
If you know some more Christmas facts, please don’t hesitate to leave your facts in the comment section!
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9 Surprising Facts about Christmas 🎄
1. Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system. According to Roger Highfield, the author of the book “The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey” the world’s most famous reindeer has a red nose due to a parasite. However, Rudolf’s relationship with his parasite is symbiotic: after all, the red nose illuminates the path through the winter night for the whole reindeer team.
2. In Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, finding a spider or a spider’s web on a Christmas tree is believed to be a harbinger of good luck. According to one legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus, according to the other – a spider web on the Christmas tree turned silver and gold once the sunlight touched it. One way or another, decorating a Christmas tree with artificial spiders and spider webs will inevitably bring you luck and prosperity!
3. Santa stretches time like a rubber band, in order to deliver all the gifts in one night. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are 2,106 million children under age 18 in the world. If we assume that each household has in average 2.5 children, Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles. Given the different time zones, Santa has 36 hours to deliver gifts, therefore his average speed would be approximately 650 miles per second. It is less than the speed of light (therefore, it’s, theoretically, doable but still quite hard for a chubby old man). Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, suggests that Santa uses relativity clouds to get the work done. Relativity clouds, based on relative physics, allow Santa to stretch time like a rubber band which gives him months to deliver gifts, while only a few minutes pass for the rest of us.
4. Two weeks before Christmas is the one of the two most popular times for couples to break up.
5. Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner. It’s all thanks to a successful “Kentucky for Christmas!”
6. The “X” in “Xmas” doesn’t take “Christ” out of “Christmas.
7. The first artificial Christmas Tree wasn’t a tree at all. It was created out of goose feathers that were dyed green.
8.Santa has his own zip code in Canada.The zip code? HOH OHO.
9. The traditionally Christian holiday is a celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus in Bethlehem to Joseph and the Virgin Mary.
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