It’s Jingle Bells Time - Some Kewl Facts About Christmas

Once again it’s that time of the year when people all across the world drown themselves in the spirit of bacchanalian revelry, forget all their worries and let their hair down all the way till the new year. This period of festivity starts off with Christmas day on 25^th December, followed by Boxing Day(Saint Stephen’s Day) on 26^th Dec, Saint John the Evangelist’s Day on Dec 27^th and culminates with the grand new year celebration on 31^st December.

If you live in India then you are fortunate to be in a country which is extremely diverse having people belonging to all kinds of religions and faiths. And one of the biggest advantages of this is that you get to celebrate a lot of festivals. So even though, christmas in India is not anywhere close to Diwali there still is a feeling of gaiety in the air, with more and more people celebrating this festival now. Many Indians settled in other countries usually come back during this period and enjoy the holiday season with their loved ones.

So while you enjoy this lovely day with kids, santa and your loved one’s you might want to take some time out and read about some interesting christmas facts. Given the fact that you would be attending a lot of christmas parties today, knowing these facts would surely help you to show off your mighty brain. So let’s check out a few:

• Christmas day is generally associated with the Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, however it’s a little known fact that December 25^th was not celebrated as the birth of christ till 440 A.D
• In 1647, the English parliament passed a law that made Christmas illegal. Christmas festivities were banned by Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell, who considered feasting and revelry on what was supposed to be a holy day to be immoral. Anybody caught celebrating Christmas was arrested. The ban was lifted only when the Puritans lost power in 1660.
• Did you know that Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten. The needles are a good source of vitamin C. Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.
• “Jingle Bells” was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.
• In UK, it was the custom to eat goose at Christmas until Henry VIII decided to tuck into a turkey. 93 per cent of the population in the UK will eat turkey on Christmas Day; this means 11 million turkeys being cooked!
• During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.

Now we sure hope that you are more christmas enlightened now.

The DelhiPlanet Team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Let the Jingle Bells Rock !!!

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