Merry Christmas from NAWRB!

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It’s Christmas Eve and NAWRB would like to wish our community a merry Christmas and happy holidays! We hope that you are spending these celebratory days away from work, with family, friends and good food. At NAWRB headquarters, the Christmas spirit is alive and well; our holiday mixer was a couple days ago, we had a secret Santa gift exchange yesterday, we have Christmas lights throughout the office and there is Christmas music playing.

In honor of this time of year, we’ve decided to compile a list of Christmas facts. From us to you, we hope you enjoy your holidays and find these tidbits interesting.

Christmas facts:

  • More than a billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. each year
  • The average American spent $830 on Christmas gifts this year
  • The tallest tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir
  • A self-proclaimed environmentalist, President Theodore Roosevelt banned Christmas trees from the White House in 1901
  • 95 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas
  • 1850 was the first year Christmas trees began being sold in the U.S.
  • Only 18 percent of U.S. households utilize real Christmas trees
  • Christmas trees grow an average of 15 years before they are cut down and sold
  • Animal crackers were originally Christmas cookies
  • Alabama was the first state to officially recognize Christmas in 1836
  • Male reindeer shed their antlers around Christmastime so Santa’s reindeer are most likely female
  • Christmas was declared a national holiday in the U.S. in 1870

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