Ten unnecessary ridiculous facts about Christmas

Did you know that Santa has nine reindeer and that they are named Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, and Rudolph? No, me neither. Time for ten useless facts about Christmas. Joejoe.

1. Santa has to move at serious top speed to deliver all the gifts on time. 822 gifts per second to be exact, to provide everyone with Christmas presents. Respect for this man.

2. By the way, do you know where the whole idea of mistletoe and kissing under that thing comes from? The custom comes from Scandinavia. When enemies met in the woods and stood under the mistletoe, they had to hold a truce.

3. In India, they decorate banana trees or mango trees for Christmas instead of Christmas trees.

4. Reindeer really have a red nose because they have one and a half to two times as many capillaries in their nose as humans. When this blood flows quickly, a red nose naturally occurs.

5. Nine months after Christmas, most babies are born. Not because we have more sex then, but mainly because we often forget contraception. Probably due to the alcohol. Whoops.

6. I don't know where those high hopes keep coming from, but in the past thousand years, we only had a white Christmas eight times. Sorry. Don’t shoot the messenger.

7. Why have one Santa when you can have thirteen, they must have thought in Iceland. In Iceland, you have the ‘Yule Lads’ (Jólasveinar) who visit you in the two weeks before Christmas. Icelandic children put out their shoes in hopes of a gift. If you've been naughty, you don't get to go in the bag to Spain but get a rotten potato in your shoe. Nice then.

8. The Statue of Liberty is the largest Christmas gift ever. France gave the statue to America in 1886, a sign of friendship after the American Revolution. It weighed over 204 tons. That's why they sawed it into 350 pieces, which were then transported in 214 wooden crates.

9. A Christmas tree only matures after about eight years. And then we chop it down? Shit...

10. Glühwein was invented by the Romans in the second century. They warmed their vino to stay warm in winter. Only later were spices and flowers added. This kept diseases away – a great excuse – and bad wine also became tastier.