Believe the unbelievable :)

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?