STUFF: We like trivia and just love finding happy little morsels of information that we didn’t already know.

Did you know the first Christmas tree was made of dyed goose feathers and was from Germany? It seems a lot of the Christmas traditions come from Germany.

The first decorated Christmas tree was in Riga, Latvia, in 1510.

Evergreens have been associated with Christmas for centuries by Germans. In ancient Egypt and Rome, people hung evergreens around their homes to symbolize fertility.

Eggnog became associated with Christmas due to a lack of refrigeration. It became more popular in America because of larger farms and more access to cows and chickens.

From Buzzfeed, The song “Jingle Bells” holds a Guinness World Record for being the first-ever song played in outer space. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, also invented Christmas lights along with his partner and friend, Edward H. Johnson.

The Swarovski Star atop the 72-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has a whopping three million glittering Swarovski crystals!

The largest gingerbread house ever made was as big as an actual house. It was made with 1,800 pounds of butter, 7,200 eggs, 3,000 pounds of sugar, 7,200 pounds of flour, and over 22,000 pieces of candy.

Each year during Christmas, over 8.5 million lights are used to decorate the magical Walt Disney World. And it’s likely somebody’s job to check for burned out bulbs.

There are more than 630 different kinds of Christmas trees. And, 77 million of those are grown each year in the United States.

Santa Claus is known by over 70 different names all around the world.

Lego sells around 28 sets every second during the Christmas season.