Revealing The Best Christmas Trivia This Year

Guys, you know how I am with Trivia. I love it. But you never really see too many Christmas Trivia out there, so does that mean it just doesn't exist?

Of course not. There are all kinds of morsels of Christmas Facts for you. I went to the internet and lovingly compiled some for you! Let's do this.

Ralphie's dad in "A Christmas Story" is never given a name. He's typically referred to as just "The Old Man".

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In the original script for "The Santa Clause", Santa doesn't die from falling off Tim Allen's roof. He dies because Allen SHOOTS him.

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During rehearsals on "Home Alone", Joe Pesci bit Macaulay Culkin hard enough to break his skin.

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“‘He was trying to scare me,’ Culkin recounted. Thinking it would help the robber-victim dynamic, ‘he was like, I want to be menacing to this kid.’ Once, rehearsing a scene in which Pesci’s Harry is threatening to bite off Kevin’s fingers, he inadvertently took it too far and really chomped Culkin. ‘I have a scar,’ he said. But in the moment, he didn’t react much. ‘I saw his face — and I’ve never, ever seen Joe Pesci actually scared,’ Culkin recalled. ‘Because he’s like, I just bit a kid!'”

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"A Charlie Brown Christmas" helped kill aluminum tree sales, thanks to Charlie's determination to get a real tree.

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According to a 2018 survey, 62% of Americans do NOT think "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie.

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A West Virginia broadcasting company initially banned "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" when it came out in the 1950s. They thought "mommy" was cheating with Santa, instead of kissing her husband in a Santa suit.

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George Michael wrote "Last Christmas" in his childhood bedroom during a visit to his parents' house in 1983

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Rumor has it that Lou Monte's "Dominick the Donkey" was financed by the Gambino crime family.

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NO, not THAT Gambino.
Brenda Lee recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" when she was 13 years old.

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Bob Geldof was able to get such a star-studded ensemble for "Do They Know It's Christmas" because he contacted the singers directly, rather than going through their managers or record labels.