Want to impress at this years’ Christmas function? Explore our Online Resources to equip yourself with fun facts to share around the dinner table.
- Did you know that physicists have proven it takes 2-3 seconds for Christmas lights to get knotted when they get put back in the box?
- To visit everyone’s house on Christmas Eve, Santa travels at 650 miles a second – that’s around 3,000 times the speed of sound.
Facts are after all a little more fun than the lame jokes found in Christmas crackers.
Aunt Arctica
Are you hosting a dinner party this year and want to do something a little different? Our Online Resources can help with that too.
Serving red brussel sprouts at Christmas is not only festive, but is ‘sexy’ too. '
(Gale Document Number:A243639063 found in the Culinary Arts Collection.)
If you’re at a function with business-minded people let them know that more than one million acres of land have been planted in Christmas trees. The industry employs over 100,000 people and many Christmas tree growers grow trees on a part-time basis to supplement income. Discuss the possibility of trying this out next year and enjoy the atmosphere as conversation starts to flow.
(Home Improvement Collection, Document number A93611925)
For music lovers, begin comparing your favourite Christmas songs by revealing that ‘White Christmas’ is the most recorded Christmas song.
(Gale Document Number:A194278413 Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection).
The best is All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey. (In my opinion anyway!)
If politics is your thing, make it Christmas-related by breaking the silence with “It may not be a Merry Christmas in South Korea this year, if they decide to light up a giant Christmas tree-shaped tower near the North Korean border.” A North Korean propaganda media outlet warned South Korea of an "unpredictable situation" if they do light the 30-metre-tall tower.
(Printed in AsiaPulse News and replicated on the RDS Business Suite database).
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