12/84Number of robots FAO Schwarz expects to sell this Christmas season: 10,000

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12/84Total number of recordings of “White Christmas” that have been sold: 150,431,669

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12/84Chance of a white Christmas in New York: 23%

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    In Minneapolis: 73%

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12/85Percentage of Jewish households in the United States that had Christmas trees in 1984: 12

1984 National Survey of American Jews (American Jewish Committee, New York City)

12/85Rank of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” among all Christmas singles, in sales last year: 1

SESAC (New York City)

12/87Price of a pound of reindeer meat at Lobel’s Prime Meats in New York City: $14.98

Lobel’s Prime Mears (N.Y.C.)

12/88Estimated cost of a partridge in a pear tree, retail: $39.95

Robert Christian, Provident National Bank (Philadelphia)

12/89Percentage of Americans who say they didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas last year: 6

Roper Organization (New York City)

12/89Percentage of Americans who say they ate plum pudding last Christmas: 1

Roper Organization (New York City)

12/89Ratio of U. S. households that have real Christmas trees to those that have artificial Christmas trees: 1:1

National Christmas Tree Association (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

12/90Average number of Christmas cards received by an American household each December: 26

Hallmark Cards (Kansas City, Missouri)

12/91Estimated number of cookies that will be left out for Santa Claus this Christmas Eve: 84,000,000

Land O’ Lakes (Arden Hills, Minn.)

12/92Price paid at auction in October for a 1942 Christmas card signed by Adolf Hitler: $3,025

Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions (Rockville Centre, New York)

12/93Maximum speed at which the seeds of the dwarf mistletoe are expelled when ripe, in miles per hour: 60

The Action Plant, by Paul Simons (Blackwells, Oxford, England)

12/93Price of a life-sized computer-controlled triceratops, from the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue: $93,000

Neiman Marcus (Dallas)

12/93Percentage of Americans who say they enjoy Christmas shopping “a great deal”: 28

Princeton Religion Research Center (N.J.)

12/95Fee charged by a California design firm to place a string of lights on an outdoor Christmas tree, lights not included: $75

SFS-FX Christmas Displays (Arcadia, Calif.)

12/96Estimated number of Americans hospitalized last year for injuries involving the ingestion of Christmas ornaments: 687

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

12/97Chance that an American adult can name all of Santa’s reindeer: 1 in 4

Franklin Mills Mall (Philadelphia)

12/98Year in which Christmas celebrations, plum pudding, and mince pie were outlawed in England: 1647

The Rise and Fall of Merry England, Oxford University Press (London)/The Story of Christmas, Odhams Press Limited (London)

12/00Minutes required to take in “the true story of Christmas ” at Little Rock’s Living Nativity drive-through: 2

First Church of the Nazarene (Little Rock, Ark.)

12/01Number of Montreal stores vandalized last year for mounting Christmas displays in November: 14

Service de Police de la CommunautŽ (Montreal)

12/02Chances of getting a hotel room in Bethlehem on Christmas in 2000 and 2001, respectively: 0, 9 in 10

Bethlehem Hotel Association (Bethlehem, Palestine)

    Chance that a Bethlehem hotel expects to be open this Christmas: 1 in 5

Bethlehem Hotel Association (Bethlehem, Palestine)

12/02Rank of a burning Yule-log video loop among the top-rated 8-10 a.m. TV shows in New York City last Christmas: 1

WPIX-TV (N.Y.C.)

12/03Estimated number of artificial Christmas trees displayed in U.S. homes each year for every real one: 2.6

National Christmas Tree Association (St. Louis)

12/05Miles per hour of two low-flying Danish fighter jets in February when they startled a reindeer named Rudolph to death: 450

Royal Danish Air Force (Karup)

    Amount his owner, a professional Santa, was paid by the Air Force in September to buy a new Rudolph: $5,000

Royal Danish Air Force (Karup)

12/06Number of worldwide incidents last Christmas of “Santarchy,” which involves roving mobs of unruly Santas: 29

Santarchy.com (San Francisco)

    Number of fruitcakes that drunken Santas catapulted into the air at the event in Portland, Oregon: 6

Portland Cacophony Society (Portland, Oreg.)

1/07Percentage change since 1970 in the height of the National Christmas Tree: +63

U.S. Forest Service

12/07Number of golf clubs a Phoenix tourism group is sending to troops overseas as part of its “Operation White Christmas”: 14,000

Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau (Phoenix)

12/07Number of Christmas trees FedExed last year to U.S. troops: 11,854

FedEx Freight (Memphis)

12/07Number of seconds it takes a synthetic Christmas tree to burn: 32

Farmington Hills Fire Department (Farmington Hills, Mich.)

12/08Percentage of U.S. Christmas trees purchased in 2001 and 2007, respectively, that were artificial: 21, 36

National Christmas Tree Association (Chesterfield, Mo.)