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The Holiday Season Has the Lowest Suicide Rate of Any Time of the Year, Not the Highest
Today I found out the holiday season has the lowest suicide rate of any time of the year, not the highest. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the holiday season actually
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The Origins of Halloween
##EMBED## The Origins of Halloween: Halloween, as we know it today, borrows traditions from four different festivals, namely: The Roman Feralia festival, commemorating the dead The Roman Pomona festival, honoring the goddess of fruit
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Retail Halloween Facts
##EMBED## Today in North America around $3 billion is spent on Halloween costumes alone. Haunted house attractions bring in about half a billion dollars annually Around 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins were produced in
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Trick Or Treating Stats
##EMBED## Trick or Treating Stats Around 35 million children in the U.S. between 5 and 13 years old go trick or treating every year, which is around 90% of all children in that age
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The Song “Jingle Bells” Is Thought to Have Been Written for a Thanksgiving Sunday School Program
Today I found out the song Jingle Bells is thought to have been written for a Thanksgiving Sunday school program. Jingle Bells was originally called One Horse Open Sleigh and was written by James
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How the Black Friday Tradition Got Started
Today I found out how the Black Friday tradition got started. While it wasn’t called “Black Friday” until the 1960s, and then not popularly called such until the last two decades, retailers have been
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The Pilgrims Didn’t Wear All Black and White Clothing with Buckled Top Hats
Myth: Pilgrims wore black and white clothing with buckled top hats. The myth that they dressed like this stems from the popular clothing style of the day in England in the late 17th century,
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