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Monthly Archives: December 2022
The Last Day Of 2022!
Fact: In 1982, Canada Post assigned Santa the postal code of H0H 0H0. It has received an annual letter volume of 1 million ever since, addressed to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0, Canada. We jumped into the swim spa first thing … Continue reading
Friends Joined Us For The Afternoon
Fact: Mistletoe is an aphrodisiac. The holiday decoration isn’t just pretty. It’s also an ancient symbol of fertility and virility—and the Druids considered it an aphrodisiac. So the next time someone cracks a joke about meeting you under the mistletoe, … Continue reading
Preparing For Our Visitors Tomorrow!
Fact: Do you want to hone your Santa craft? There is no more prestigious institute than the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School to do it. The school has operated since 1937, teaching Santa history, proper dress, Santa sign language, toy making, … Continue reading
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Things Are Beginning To Return To Normal
Fact: Sung by Bing Crosby, “White Christmas” is one of the most popular Christmas carols ever written. Irving Berlin wrote the song for the 1942 movie “Holiday Inn,” starring Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds, and it won the Academy Award … Continue reading
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Off And Running To Long Beach & Riverside
Fact: Like most authors, Clement Clarke Moore was his own harshest critic. The intellectual professor wrote “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” for his kids, but did not publish it under his own name until 21 years had passed at the insistence … Continue reading
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Christmas Planning For 2023 Begins Today!
Fact: PopSci estimates Santa Claus would have to travel an average speed of 5.083 million miles per hour based on a 24-hour cycle to hit each household on Christmas Eve. It bases this on 2.67 children per household, with 75 … Continue reading
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Christmas Day; Time For Family & Friends
Fact: The Curious World of Christmas lists Werner Erhard as the record holder for sending the most Christmas cards in a single year (December 1975) at 62,824. Standard postage at the time would have run $8,167.12, or around $30,783.76 in today’s … Continue reading
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Christmas Eve And Time To Be With Friends & Family
Fact: This Christmas gift held a lifesaving secret. During World War II, The United States Playing Card Company joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies to create a very special deck of cards. They distributed them as Christmas gifts, … Continue reading
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T-2 And We have Been Good This Year, Mostly!
Fact: Ham ranks as the festive favorite One of the showstoppers of Christmas dinner is carving the roast beast, whatever species it comes from. Google searches for “ham” and “turkey” both spike during December, according to Google Trends data. Spiral-cut … Continue reading
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Girls Night Out, The Doctor, The Hot Tub!
Fact: The Addis Brush Company, a toilet brush company in the 1930s, invented the first artificial brush tree using the same equipment they used to create their signature product. They received a patent for the aluminum tree in 1950. Today we … Continue reading
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