[Festival fact 1] In 1939, Thanksgiving was celebrated on the third Thursday in November — not the fourth.
[Festival fact 2] Holi is an Indian festival in which people dance, play live music, throw colored powders at each other, have a bonfire, consume cannabis (which is often distributed by the government for the occasion).
[Festival fact 3] In Korea, everyone is 1 from the time they are born and everyone gets a year older on New Year's Day. So your Korean age is always either one or two years older than your Western age.
[Festival fact 4] A struggling actor, Jim Carrey wrote himself a $10,000,000 check for 'acting services rendered' and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995. By 1994, Carrey had made millions from Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber.
[Festival fact 5] Puritans started a "War on Christmas" in the 17th Century, considering it hedonistic and heretical.
[Festival fact 6] There is an annual religious festival in Spain named El Colacho that involves lining up newborn babies in the street and jumping over them. The residents of Castrillo de Murcia line up their babies in the street so that men dressed as the devil can jump over them to rid them of evil.
[Festival fact 7] A giant snowman named Snowzilla is created every year in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2008, the city attempted to stop the creation of Snowzilla, and on Christmas morning there were sign-carrying snowmen "protesting" that attempt in front of city hall.
[Festival fact 8] It’s a more than a 50-year-old tradition in Sweden to watch a specific Donald Duck cartoon at exactly 3 pm on Christmas Eve. Approximately half the country tunes in to watch every year.
[Festival fact 9] After the Burning Man Festival, a cleaning crew combs through the grounds to clean up “MOOP” or trash as small as single hairs from wigs in order to pass a federal inspection.
[Festival fact 10] At 12:00 a.m. on New Year’s Eve 2017, three men pulled off a $6 million jewelry heist only a half-mile from Times Square and 7,000 NYPD officers. Police said the men waited till midnight, when the officers would be the busiest, to break into KGK Holding Jewelry.
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