As the 2019 festive season draws ever closer, we’d like to wish all our clients, candidates and friends a Merry Christmas!
Although Christmas is celebrated almost everywhere around the globe, each country has its own traditions that makes the season so special. Christmas is all about traditions, but there are plenty of very interesting and sometimes even weird things about this holiday.
- According to an old wife’s tale if you bake bread on Christmas Eve then it will be fresh forever. It’s yet to be known that how many people actually believe in this story and how many of them have ever tried it.
- If you are interested to go for a Christmas shopping, then it’s a word to remember. Statistics reveal that you are going to be elbowed thrice if not more while shopping.
- It is believed Germany began the tradition of the Christmas tree. Additionally, tinsel, which was once made of actual silver, is traced to 1610 in Germany.
- Every year, Europeans decorate about 50 million live Christmas trees and the United States about 35 million.
- Each year, approximately ten million Christmas turkeys are eaten in the U.K. and 22 million in the United States.
- The song “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” originally was sung by servants to demand alcoholic drinks from their masters. “We won’t go until we get some, so bring some out here.”
- During World War II, the Bicycle playing card company made decks of cards and gave them to the prisoners of war in Germany with hidden escape routes revealed when the cards were soaked in water as Christmas presents.
- Why red, gold and green? Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty.
- US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world’s presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
- Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.
The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May all these be yours at Christmas.