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Natives in Canada had a traditional gift giving holiday nearly identical to Christmas called Potlatch until it was outlawed for being unchristian, hundreds of natives were sent to prison for continuing to celebrate it from 1921 until the law was finally repealed in the 1950s.
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Many Christmas traditions come from the Roman holiday Saturnalia. During Saturnalia, work and business came to a halt. Schools and courts of law closed, and the normal social patterns were suspended. People decorated their homes with wreaths and other greenery, and shed their traditional togas in favor of colorful clothes known as synthesis. Even slaves […]
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Every Christmas season, an estimated 3.6 million Japanese families treat themselves to Kentucky Fried Chicken, in what has become a nationwide tradition.
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The Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer story idea was initially rejected, as in the 1930s red noses were associated with alcoholism and drunkards. The author asked an illustrator friend to draw “cute reindeer,” and these drawings convinced management to support the idea.
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Since those involved in the Rudolph TV special had no idea of the future value of the stop motion puppet figures, many were not preserved. In 2005, the remaining two puppets of Rudolph and Santa appeared on Antiques Roadshow, damaged from years of rough handling by children and attic storage. On the show, their appraised […]
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There is a “Christmas Tree” (actually a large bush) located in the median of I-17 in Arizona, which has been decorated every year for over 30 years by an unknown group of persons.
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In 2015, a radio DJ in Austria barricaded himself into his studio and played Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ 24 times in a row. He did it as a protest for lack of holiday spirit, and only stopped after his 4-year-old daughter called in to complain.
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Paul McCartney recorded the song Wonderful Christmastime entirely on his own during the sessions for his second solo album. In 2010 it was estimated that the song earns $400,000 a year, putting the overall earnings at $15 million.
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Christmas Cards in Victorian England were bizarre to put it mildly. Featuring dead birds, frogs murdering one another, sinister snowmen and others.
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There’s an “ice labyrinth” in Poland that looks incredible.
BEHOLD!
Snowlandia is a sort of winter amusement park located in Zakopane, a region on the southern border of Poland.
While they offer other attractions like sledding, skiing, and a “mini zoo,” their main attraction is an enormous maze, constructed of snow and ice and containing all sorts of hidden treasures.
The maze was first constructed in 2015, and has to be rebuilt each year.
It takes a crew of 50 people about a month to put it together, and sudden temperature spikes can reverse a lot of work quickly.
The structure owes its design to Derek Pytlik and Artur Haber, and takes around 60,000 snow blocks to complete.
It’s a big draw for tourists, especially ones with kids.
So bundle up, and don’t get lost.
A lot of folks refer to it as the “biggest” or “largest” maze of its kind, but we can’t find anything official to back that up.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest snow maze was created in Manitoba, Canada, and the largest ice maze was in Buffalo, New York.
Your guess is as good as ours as to what the difference is between those categories…
Getting lost in the cold isn’t most peoples’ idea of a good time, but this is tempting.
Would you brave the great Ice Labyrinth?
Let us know in the comments.
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