• The first decorated Christmas tree dates back to 1510 from the town of Riga in Latvia. The first historiography of a Christmas tree dates back to 1531
  • Every year in December blaring this golden oldie ‘christmas’song multiple times by the speakers and almost everyone knows a piece of text: Jingle Bells. But did you know that Jingle Bells was actually written for Thanksgiving and not for Christmas?
  • They say that an artificial Christmas tree is better for the environment than a real, since you used more often. But before a nepkerstboom really ' greener ' than an actual Christmas tree, you will need to use him about 10 years.
    This has mainly to do with the reuse of the real Christmas tree as compost and the raw materials needed for making and transporting of artificial Christmas trees. Unfortunately disappear artificial Christmas trees often much earlier on the garbage dump. Would you like more frequently than once every ten years a new tree? Then you can for the environment so better every year a real buy!
  • For decades, people use angel hair to make the tree decorating. Why is that tradition ever arise? By angels in the tree to hang her, wanted to show people that real angels had decorated the tree, there were some of their beautiful hair. Later it was replaced by the silver angel hair and anderkleurige strings, but the thought behind it is still the same
  • You hear more often that people used real Christmas candles in the tree. And that's right, since the middle of the 17th century did one small candles in the Christmas tree. But since the end of the 19th century that were gradually replaced by electric Christmas lights. Conceived in 1882 Edward Johnson, the Assistant of Thomas Edison, namely the use of electronic Christmas lights.
  • Santa Claus in Canada has its own postal code H0H, namely 0H0. Children in Canada get even answer if they post send to Santa Claus, but then they send their letter for 16 december. The complete address is:
    SANTA CLAUS NORTH POLE 0H0 CANADA H0H
  • During the first week that you are a real Christmas tree in your home, this has just a little less than a liter of water per day to look good. Of course we give the Christmas tree all much too little water, making it lose its needles much faster.