December 24, 2025
Since 1959, many people in Sweden gather around their TVs at 3:00 PM on Christmas Eve to watch the same Donald Duck animated special that is broadcast every year. A study in 2016 showed national cell data usage dropped 28 percent when the program aired.
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Santa Claus, a more secular form of St. Nicholas, has been an American Christmas mainstay for more than 200 years. According to tradition, the rotund, bearded, red-garbed elf delivers toys to all good children around the world via a reindeer-guided flying sleigh, while appreciative youngsters gift
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