Due to the time zones, Santa has 31 hours to deliver gifts? This means that he would have to visit 832 homes each second!
In 1836, Alabama is the first state in the USA to declare Christmas a legal holiday.
Today poinsettias are the most popular Christmas plant and are the number one flowering potted plant in the United States.
The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel or bay window symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life to all who enter.
Dolphins and porpoises differ in that dolphins are larger and more streamlined, and often have much larger dorsal fins. Porpoises are shorter, stockier, and have either triangular dorsal fins, without as curve, or, as in the case of the finless porpoise, no dorsal at all.
Onions are usually eaten in such small amounts that they make very little difference nutritionally, but the most nutritious ones are scallions, with four times the vitamin C and 5,000 times the vitamin A as other onions
An American Animal Hospital Association survey revealed that 62 percent of dog owners sign letters or cards from themselves and their dogs.
Among 1,500 Americans surveyed, the piano is the instrument of choice at 34 percent, followed by guitar (24%), drums (9%), and flute (5%).
Oysters were a major part of life in New York in the late 1800s. They were eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; they were pickled, stewed, baked, roasted, fried, scalloped, and used in soups, patties, and puddings.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound
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