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| 2003-12-22 - Weird News Wireless Flash News Deck The Halls With Christmas Stats | ||
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Philadelphia, PA (WFN) -- While Santa makes his list and checks it twice, the rest of us can check out a new book chock-full of seasonal statistics. "The Christmas List" (Quirk) has some surprising Noel numbers such as this one: 569 American children were hospitalized in 1997 for ingesting Christmas ornaments. Another Christmas number-cruncher: 34,335,809 real Christmas trees are displayed in the average holiday season compared to 40,694,463 fake trees. -- Eight states have a town called Santa Claus. -- Twenty-thousand Salvation Army kettles are placed out each year and bell-ringers spend 4.6 million hours monitoring the kettles. -- 5,340 Visa cards are swiped in America each minute between Thanksgiving and Christmas. -- Finally, 4 million tons of wrapping paper trash is collected each year.
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