SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS

Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system.

According to data analyzed from Facebook posts, two weeks before Christmas is one of the two most popular times for couples to break up. However, Christmas Day is the least favorite day for breakups.

In Poland, spiders or spider webs are common Christmas trees decorations because according to legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus. In fact, Polish people consider spiders to be symbols of goodness and prosperity at Christmas.

Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S.

The French gave the biggest Christmas present ever in 1886. It was the Statue of Liberty, and they gave it to the United States of America.

That "Xmas" stems from Greece. The Greek "X" is a symbol for Christ.

An estimated 1 of 3 people worldwide celebrate Christmas, including 2.1 Billion Christians. There are about 7,038,044,500 people in the world, so about 23,460,148 celebrate Christmas.

During the auspicious Christmas time many of the pet owners think their pet as human beings. It is noticed that almost 56 percent of Americans sing to their pets.

Scraps of Christmas can make problems for you many times. The Christmas scraps are responsible for 400,000 cases of disease and sickness after the Christmas time.

Father Christmas has two addresses, Edinburg and the North Pole. If someone writes a letter and wants to send it to "Toyland" or "Snow land", then that particular letter goes to Edinburg. But, if someone sends the letter to "The North Pole", then it has to go to the North Pole because there is a place called North Pole.

THE WHOLE COUNTY IS COVERED BY SNOW

It have been snowing a lot in the county the last day. The whole county is now completely covered in snow.

Mostly of the snow have been coming in the Swedish mountains, according to SMHI.
Hemavan have measured it up to 61 centimeters of new snow the last 24 hours.
The station in Gunnarn has measured it up to five centimeters and the station in Kasa has measured it up to three centimeters.

More snow is suspected during the Monday, but the white happiness might not be here for long. Several plus degrees are suspected to come at Tuesday.

LOCAL VILLAGER WINNING IN BINGOLOTTO

Christer Johansson from Ivarsboda, Sävar, won a car in last Sundays Bingolotto.
“It feels very good” he replies to VK after his win.
The winner from Ivarsboda already had a Volvo 850 in his ownership.
And with his win in the Sundays round of Bingolotto, he now also has a Volkswagen Passat Alltracker, worth 376 000 SEK.
“I am not sure if I am going to sell it or keep it, I guess I will have to figure it out”. Says Christer Johansson.
Christer Johansson have already played Bingolotto for a long time, since the era of “Loket”.
He was prepared to win around 10 000 SEK, but he went home with a brand new car.
“This was a great bonus” He says.

THE REINDEERS EYES ARE SWITCHING COLORS

The reindeers eyes are switching colors depending on the season of the year. The contexture under their retina gets blue on the winter, and therefore more sensitive to light.

It is the Swedish radio that tells about this Norwegian/British study.
The contexture under the retina gets golden colored under the summer, and switches to blue when it gets to winter.

The study was made by studying 50 different reindeers, when some of them got slaughtered under the summer, and the rest of them under the winter.

According to the scientists, reindeers are the only mammal that switches its color of their eyes by the seasons.

The scientists will publish their results in Proceedings of the Royal society AB.

NEW OWNERS SEARCHING FOR THE HOTELS ANCIENT GLORY

NEW OWNERS SEARCHING FOR THE HOTELS ANCIENT GLORY

”We want the classic facility to get its glory back, but we are going to be careful in the beginning” says Victoria Lindh.

Homesickness to Dorotea, and a huge desire to get the classic facility to life again was two ingredients that led to switching ownership in the middle of September.
The new owners Victoria Lindh and Jon-Erik Svanlund both have their roots in Dorotea, but they did not have any plans of getting into the restaurant-business, unless the hotel was out for bidding.

There will also be a bar at the hotel, but it will not be open in a few weeks, until they have been permitted to serve alcohol.

“We will start carefully in the beginning, but we are aiming to get the hotel as good as it once was. Dance nights, pub nights and get the old family feeling back”.