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Christmas Holiday Facts  

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There's no other holiday like Christmas. Many of us celebrate the holidays without knowing how our traditions got started or what they signify. Christmas is much more fun when you know some facts behind the holiday.

Most of these facts are very interesting and reminds us that there is quite a bit of history behind our family customs. Try using the Christmas Holiday Facts to make your own Christmas quiz for holiday parties and add a unique touch with personal favorites.

Christmas Holiday Facts: (World Amazing Facts)

  • The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.

  • The first president to decorate the white house Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.

  • Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.

  • The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in 1843, the Victorian Era

  • "It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

  • "Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is history.

  • "The Nutcracker" is the most famous Christmas ballet.

  • "Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.

  • If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.

  • The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.

  • Holly berries are poisonous.

  • Contrary to common belief, poinsettia plants are non-toxic.

  • In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.

  • The first state to recognize the Christmas holiday officially was Alabama

  • Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.

  • Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.

  • An angel told Mary she was going to have a baby.

  • Clearing up a common misconception, in Greek, X means Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" comes from. Not because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.

  • Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down after Epiphany.

  • More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.

  • In Mexico, wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve is said to bring new love in the upcoming year.

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How night shift workers can improve their job performance  

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Wearing dark sunglasses when outside in daytime and a strict sleep schedule can improve job performance and alertness in night shift workers, say researchers.

The research team revealed that use of light exposure therapy, dark sunglasses and a strict sleep schedule can help night-shift workers create a "compromise circadian phase position," which may result in increased performance and alertness during night shifts while still allowing adequate nighttime sleep on days off.

The study involved twenty-four healthy subjects with seven women and five men in both the experimental and control groups.

All subjects were young, but the experimental group was significantly older than the control group (average age of 28.9 years versus 23.7 years). Subjects did not work night shifts in the three months preceding the study and did not travel across more than three time zones in the month preceding the study.

During the research, subjects underwent a total of seven simulated night shifts from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. with two days off. Experimental subjects slept in dark bedrooms at scheduled times: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. after the first two night shifts, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. after the third night shifts, from 3 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the two weekend days off, and again from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. after the final four night shifts.

They also were exposed to five, 15-minute, intermittent bright light pulses each night shift; wore dark sunglasses when outside; and received outdoor afternoon light exposure.

The performance of the experimental group was close to the level during day shifts, demonstrating fast reaction times with low variability and few or no lapses. In contrast, the control group continued to show longer and more variable reaction times on all night shifts.

The study suggests that in addition to adopting the recommended sleep pattern and wearing sunglasses, night-shift workers who use bright light exposure therapy will be able to alter their circadian rhythm in order to improve performance during night shift work, continue day-time interaction with peers and have the ability to sleep at night on days off.

The study appears in the journal Sleep.

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Amusing Irrelevant Facts  

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1. Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit cards.


2. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

3. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.

4. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

5. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

6. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

7. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory.

8. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

9. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

10. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

11. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.

12. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

13. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.

14. According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is the wrong size.

15. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.


16. The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City.


17. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.

18. Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.

19. 200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.

20. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.

21. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.

22. In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.

23. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

24. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.

25. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

26. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

27. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

28. The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.

29. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

30. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

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-Amazing 51 Facts -  

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1.People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

2.Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.

3.People with blue eyes see better in dark.

4.Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

5.The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.

6.The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

7.The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.

8.There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.

9.A male baboon can kill a leopard.

10.When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.

11.Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.

12.Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

13. Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

14.Some lions mates over 50 times a day.

15.American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.

16.The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.

17.In the 1930's America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

18.There's a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

19.Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.

20.Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

21.Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

22.Human birth control pill work on gorillas.

23.The right lung takes in more air than the left.

24.It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

25.A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

26.Astronauts cannot burp in space.

27.The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

28.Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

29.The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.

30.No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.

31.SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.

32.A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

33.DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

34.A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

35.The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

36.The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

37.DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

38.CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

39.The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

40.OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

41.POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

42.KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

43.ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

44.OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

45.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

46.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

47.The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.

48.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

49.Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

50.German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

51.A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

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Don’t Obsess About Food  

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One of the dangers of dieting is the ‘diet mentality‘. The constant need to weigh, measure, count and account for food that most dieters feel can become an obsession with food that comes close to that experienced by someone with an eating disorder. Is it possible to lose weight without becoming obsessed with food?

Dr. David Katz, author of “The Way to Eat”, suggests a better way.
While it’s important to balance the calories you eat with the calories you burn, he says, it’s not necessary to obsess about food by counting every calorie. Instead, he suggests, focus on eating well for your health and permanent weight loss will follow.

Dr. Katz’s suggestions include replacing highly processed foods which contain added sugar, fat, starch and salt with more wholesome foods with short ingredient lists. Avoid foods with added ‘flavor enhancers’ like monosodium glutamate and high fructose corn syrup which tend to stimulate the appetite and make you want to eat even more.

Instead, focus on healthier alternatives within food groups. That’s far easier to do than you’d think. A simple change in your diet like replacing the light cream in your coffee with low-fat milk can save you 50 calories per cup. If you drink a lot of coffee, that could add up to a substantial lowering in your overall daily calorie intake - with the added bonus of giving you all the calcium and vitamin D you usually get with less than half the fat.

But, you say, you just can’t drink your coffee with skim milk? That’s fine, too. We all have little luxuries that we think we can’t live without. Take a few minutes to analyze your diet and figure out which things you just can’t give up - then make adjustments in other areas to account for them. Can’t live without cream in your coffee? Skip the muffin you usually have with it, or replace the butter you use on it with a low-fat margarine substitute. Eating healthy is about choices - not obsession.

Here are some other suggestions to help you stop obsessing about calories and start eating healthier:

1. Toss out sugared breakfast cereals in favor of a whole-grain cereal that has little or no added sugar and drop a few berries into your bowl
instead.

2. Switch to an all natural, no additive peanut butter instead of a highly processed one that contains added sugar and oils for stabilization.

3. Keep a baggie of dried fruit in your desk drawer for a
high-potassium pick-me-up at mid-morning. You’ll be far less inclined to overeat at lunch - and you won’t find yourself yawning at 11 A.M.

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'Cloverfield': Five facts  

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1. FACT ONE: It Came From Japan Producer J.J. Abrams took his son to a toy store in Japan and saw rows and rows of Godzilla toys. Feeling that the U.S. lacked a giant monster of its own, he decided to a make his own creature feature that would be filmed entirely through the point-of-view of the people on the ground, running for their lives.


2. FACT TWO: "Felicity" Fans Are in for a Shock Abrams picked his childhood friend Matt Reeves to direct the film. Together, they created Felicity, a show about young New Yorkers looking for love. But while the most exciting moment on that show was the time Keri Russell cut her hair, in this movie the entire city gets hacked to pieces.


3. FACT THREE: This Poster Doesn't Lie As a kid, Abrams loved Escape From New York. But he felt cheated that the image of the Statue of Liberty's head lying in the street on the movie's poster wasn't actually in the film. Abrams finally got to see it on the big screen in the teaser trailer that appeared before Transformers last summer.


4. FACT FOUR: They Never Meant to Call It That To keep the movie a secret, the project was given the codename "Cloverfield," after a street near Abrams' office. The filmmakers had planned to release the movie as Greyshot, the name of a key Central Park location. But the temporary title spread through the internet so quickly that crew decided to keep it.


5. FACT FIVE: Will There Be Anyone Left for a Sequel? In the exclusive clip below, Rob (Michael Stahl-David) and Beth (Odette Yustman) run to catch the last helicopter out of Manhattan. Do they make it? We're not telling. But Director Matt Reeves has stated that if they do a sequel, it might take place during the same monster attack, but seen from another camera.

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