This one is late because I had posting problems (which is code for I didn’t get it written)
Five more “little known” facts about Christmas #buzzfeed
- President Richard Nixon invented the “elf on a shelf” tradition.
- During the 1940s there was a brief holiday craze when people drank a concoction of gin, cranberry juice, and nutmeg swirled with a candy cane called a Rowdy Reindeer.
- After the crew of Apollo 8 delivered their Christmas message to the people of earth, they celebrated the holiday by playing a weightless version of beer pong.
- The novelty song “Grandma Got Run Over by a Rendeer,” was actually acommentary on the Iran Contra scandal.
- “Little Christmas” was one of the first nicknames for Shirley Temple.
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