How much wrapping paper is used each year at Christmas?
Each year Americans alone use 4.6 million pounds of wrapping paper to the tune of seven billion dollars. Half of that number ends up in a landfill. That's 2.3 million pounds of used, crinkly, glitter-full Santa paper rolling like tumbleweeds across a desolate wasteland of trash.
Eggnog: Given that, eggnog would literally mean “egg beer.” Another possibility is that eggnog is simply an abbreviated version of the phrase “egg and grog” or “egg'n grog.” “Grog” was a word used in colonial North America to describe any thick beverage, of which eggnog is definitely one.
Largest Gingerbread House
Coming in at 35.8 million calories and covering an area of 2520 square feet, or nearly the size of a tennis court, the 21-foot high gingerbread house in Bryan, Texas, 90 miles northwest of Houston, has been declared the biggest ever by Guinness World Records.