5 little known facts about Christmas
- If you play the movie Elf with the sound turned down, it syncs perfectly with Michael Jackson’s album Thriller.
- During one holiday season in the height of Beatlemania, Ringo Starr marketed Christmas tree toppers called Starr’s Stars.
- There is no such thing as figgy pudding. The writer of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” needed a four syllable treat that might be given to carolers and made up the oft quoted (but never eaten) concoction. Sugar plums exist, but would cost $5000 in today’s currency to make.
- The dogs heard on the holiday classic “Barking Dogs Jingle Bells” were all abandoned after the recording session. However, this story has a happy holiday ending, as they were later adopted by the fire stations of Yonkers, NY.
- Before Clement Moore “named” Santa’s reindeer in the holiday classic “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the reindeer had been named after US oil reserve fields by John D Rockefeller.
More tomorrow
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