The capital city of Venezuela has a neat tradition. The streets in Caracas are closed off in order to allow churchgoers to arrive by roller-skate.

Billy's Polar Express ticket has the letters B & E punched in it.

The first rule of The Code Of The Elves is "Treat every day like Christmas."

Have a holly jolly Christmas
It's the best time of the year
I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

It was written by Noël Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regney had been invited by a record producer to write a Christmas song, but was hesitant due to the commercialism of the holiday. It has since sold tens of millions of copies and been covered by hundreds of artists.

The lyrics mention the ships sailing into Bethlehem, but the nearest body of water is the Dead Sea about 20 miles (32 km) away.

In the early 1990s the world's largest artificial Christmas tree maker, Boto Company (bankrupted in January 2008) supplied the first pre-lit Christmas trees to Target stores.

Kris is arrested by the hateful Burgermeister for smuggling toys into Sombertown.

On his way to Sombertown, Santa meets a lost penguin whom he names Topper.

In 1822, Clement C. Moore's gift to his children was the poem "The Night Before Christmas". This poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is responsible for many of the popular conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today.