Tuesday 12/24/24
Celebrate:
Feast of the Seven Fishes - is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.
Last-Minute Shopper's Day
National Eggnog Day
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Mega Millions for a Christmas Eve draw tonight is $944 Million with a cash option of $429.4 Million.
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Santa married 14 couples in Oklahoma on Wednesday. It's the second year he's traveled down from the North Pole to officiate. He told a reporter he makes time even though he's pretty busy right now.
Santa shared a secret about why Christmastime is the perfect time to have a wedding.
He also said, "There's really no way you can forget an anniversary gift because [when] you get your anniversary gift it's like, 'Oh no, I have to get my Christmas gifts too.' So, it seems to really work out in favor of the men out there," said Santa.
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A 19-year-old on Long Island named Andrew Reid put together a huge Christmas display using mostly junk. He fixed up decorations that were being thrown out to save them from ending up in a landfill. His display includes more than 500 decorations and close to 100,000 lights.
He made it a charity fundraiser, with all the proceeds going to the Ronald McDonald House. He's calling it the "Misfit Island Christmas Lights Spectacular."
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Reindeer do not eat carrots.
Recent surveys have suggested that British people leave out around 3,000 tonnes of carrots for Rudolph to eat every Christmas Eve. But we aren’t sure where this tradition stems from as they do not grow in sub-Arctic habitats, and reindeer physically can’t eat carrots. Their lack of top teeth prevents them from chewing them down into a digestible size.
The food of choice for most reindeer is lichen, a fungi-algi symbiote, that grows in the Cairngorm mountains and keeps the herd healthy.
Maybe Santa’s Reindeer eat glitter..they are magic after all!
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Dolly Parton was recently asked what her wish would be for the holiday season . . . and her answer was kind and beautiful, as one would expect from Dolly.
She just wished people would have "peace and goodwill" towards one another. Quote, "That is my wish that people try to put aside all their differences . . . and just try to find that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace within themselves and just try to love one another."
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In case you thought you started today - "The Twelve Days of Christmas" starts on Christmas Day, and ends on January 5th.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - There are more than 100,000 Americans who have full- or part-time jobs in the Christmas tree industry.
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