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21# Jingle Bell Rock: Bobby Helms’ Rockin’ Christmas classic

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20# The true story behind “I’ll be Home for Christmas”

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The magic of lost Brittany’s Christmas Traditions

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• Random Christmas 2022

19# The true story behind Last Christmas

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• Random Christmas 2022

18# The controversial history of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

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• Random Christmas 2022

17# All I Want for Christmas Is…You?

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• Random Christmas 2022

16# It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

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• Random Christmas 2022

15# Deck the Halls

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• Random Christmas 2022

14# The Twelve Days of Christmas

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• Random Christmas 2022

13# O Tannenbaum – here another song that has very little to do with Christmas!

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• Random Christmas 2022

12# Santa Claus Is Coming to Town!

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Legend of the Nisse and Tomte – Scandinavian domestic sprites and their modern counterparts that you don’t expect

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• Random Christmas 2022

11# The humble origins of Silent Night

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• Random Christmas 2022

10# Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: One hit wonder

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• Random Christmas 2022

9# The true story behind White Christmas

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• Random Christmas 2022

8# We Wish You a Merry Christmas…with no more figgy pudding

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• Random Christmas 2022

7# Who’s responsible for the Little Drummer Boy?

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• Random Christmas 2022

6# No Christmas for Frosty 🎶

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• Random Christmas 2022

5# The Christmas Song, The first holiday standard sung by a black American

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• Random Christmas 2022

4# Jingle Bells or…The One Horse Open Sleigh? 🎶

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• Random Christmas 2022

2# Sleigh rides…in July 🎶

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• Myths and Legends

Rusalka: the history behind mythical Slavic Mermaid

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• Weather

Diomede Islands, the islands of yesterday, today and tomorrow

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• Food

The long, controversy story of cheese on Apple Pie

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• Myths and Legends

The Drekavac, monster from South Slavic mythology

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• People, mysteries and stories

The SS Great Britain and the mystery of Captain John Gray

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• Sport

Discover world’s smallest Football League that consists of only two teams!

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• Travel

Hum, the world’s smallest town with only two streets and three rows of houses

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• People, mysteries and stories

The black eyed child: the obscure story behind the legend that roams Cannock Chase

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• People, mysteries and stories

Viking Sally, the story behind Baltic’s most ill-fated ship

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• Myths and Legends

The Dobhar-chú, an Irish folktale

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• Food
• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Soul Cake, the true Halloween treat of tradition for hungry ghosts

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Bobbing for Apples: History and how to keep this ancient Halloween tradition alive

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• Myths and Legends

The Dullahan – Headless Horseman of Celtic Mythology

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• History

Necropants and other extraordinary tales of 17th-century Icelandic sorcery

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Dziady – Autumnal Granfathers: the slavic week devoted to commemorating the Dead

4 years ago Danijel90

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• History
• Myths and Legends

The spooky science of haunted mirrors and superstitious mirror mythology

4 years ago Leo S

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• Sport

Armboxing – one of the world’s weirdest contact sport

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• History

Crossed Letters – a vintage way to save paper (and money)

4 years ago Adam

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• Travel

The Broken Wheel – The Netherlands’ unique waterside residential area

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• Food

Vagina-Flavored chips are on sale to millennials who ‘aren’t having sex’

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• Food

Via Mari 10: world’s smallest vineyard that produces only 29 bottles of wine a year (that you shouldn’t drink)

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