I took my time to search for some interesting information
about holidays and greetings. Now I share with you what I found:
1) 19 million other people share a birthday on the same day
as you (except, maybe for those born on February 29)
2) Close to 2 billion Birthday Cards are sent each year in
the U.S. alone, accounting for nearly 58% of all cards sent (that's why there's
such a huge demand for handmade cards)
3) Paul McCartney's Birth Certificate was auctioned in March
1997, for US $84,146. It is believed to be the world's most expensive Birth
Certificate (I wonder who the next record keeper might be...)
4) 14th November - the Birthday of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the
first Prime Minister of India is celebrated as Children's Day in India in
memory of his love of children
5) For those of you who know Hershey's, this company started
wrapping its Kisses in red, green, and silver foil for the first time in 1962.
The success of the holiday-wrapped Kisses led Hershey's to dress up their
little chocolates for the Easter, Valentine's Day, and Fall Harvest seasons.
Can you imagine that Hershey's now wraps up to 1,300
Hershey's Kisses a minute. That gives them the capacity to make approximately
33 million Hershey's Kisses a day, or more than 12 billion a year.
6) Did you know (because I had no idea) that the first
Christmas card, created by a London businessman, was printed in England in
1843. Three years later, the first commercial Christmas cards were available to
the public. One thousand cards in all were produced and they were an instant
success.
7) Germany made the
first artificial Christmas trees. They were made of goose feathers and dyed
green.
8) Hallmark Company produced its first Valentine’s card in
1913. In 2000, Hallmark offered 1,330 different Valentine’s cards.
9) The Löschner family of Neuhausen, Germany, owns the
biggest nutcracker collection: 4,334. It is said that German craftsmen made the
first decorative nutcrackers around 1800 as a way of mocking authority figures,
leading to the phrase “a hard nut to crack.”
P.S. In Mexico, wearing
red underwear on New Year's Eve is said to bring new love in the upcoming year. Will you do it this year?
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