Facts to get you through the holiday season:
- Tortilla chips–It takes about 8 chips to make one tortilla. Consider that when you are chowing down on a bowl. 16 chips=2 tortillas, etc. My normal situation has me eating about 30 whole tortillas at a time.
- Candy canes were invented to keep kids quiet in church. Wonder if they still work?
- Australians usually grill on Christmas. Perhaps we should follow our down under friends
- Traditional Christmas dinner contains about 7000 calories.
- The fruit cake was designed to last all year. When the fruit cake first came about, it was baked at the end of the harvest season and saved to be eaten at the beginning of the next harvest season. That explains a lot.
- It’s been estimated that the price of all the milk and cookies left out for Santa around the world amounts to about $189 million annually. wait, what????
- On Christmas Day in 2008 almost 39,000 copies of iFart, a flatulence simulation software app, were downloaded. This number should be much higher.
- One in four hazelnuts ends up in Nutella. aren’t these the things in mixed nuts called filburts
- Santa Claus is 1750 years old. doesn’t look a day over 1600
- Santa Claus makes 842 million stops on Christmas Eve night. the best theory I have heard on this is that he is a time traveler. So we see it as a night but it actually takes him much much longer. Thoughts?
