Hot Cockles, Roofies and Banana Tossing. Christmas facts From around the World and Right Here In Midtown.

On Christmas Eve in Belgium, it is legal for children to throw bananas at police cars.
On Christmas Day in Belgium, it is legal for police officers to throw bananas at children.

In medieval times, 'Hot cockles' was a popular Christmas game until Victorian era. In this game, other players give a blow to the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person who gave the blow.** I assume by Blow they mean strike, otherwise those Medieval folks were pretty wild**

Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.

Tree decorating originated with tree-worshipping Druids, whose modern descendants ignore Christmas altogether , preferring to spend their time listening to shitty music made by annoying pasty skinned singers bitching about their parents and wearing cheap silver jewelry from Vulcan’s Forge.

The tradition of kissing under Mistletoe was started by a chemist for Roche drug company named Rolph A. Nall around the turn of the century. Rolph replaced the berries with sedatives and fed them to unwitting Coworkers, who would subsequently pass out and were then subjected to Rolph’s own version of the game "Hot Cockles".

Santa’s sleigh was originally pulled by elves. During a labor strike in 1932 , 75 percent of the elves defected from the north pole and formed a cookie company. Santa had to use the remaining elves to make toys and came up with the idea of using reindeer to pull his sled.

Queen Victoria and husband Prince Albert put up the first tree in Windsor Castle. They hung ornaments from the tree. Twenty years later their rebellious son also named Prince Albert hung ornaments from his penis and chased chamber maids while shouting Ho Ho Ho. Thus three traditions were born in Windsor Castle. Decorating christmas trees, decorating the penis and sexual harassment.