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Today on something you should know, some interesting facts about Christmas you probably never knew.

Then why do we begin things with the best of intentions, and then fail to follow through?

One of the reasons we do such a lousy job as humans is that we adopt too many intentions. We treat our good intentions as if they're a dime a dozen, and if you treat them that way, that's exactly what they're worth.

Also, is it better to warm up your car's engine first on cold winter mornings? And understanding how your brain works and why you need to take such very good care of it.

You don't see with your eyes, you see with your brain. You don't feel with your skin, you feel with your brain. You hear with your brain, you smell with your brain.

Everything that you experience and every action you take starts in your brain.

All this today on something you should know.

Something you should know, fascinating intel, the world's top experts, and practical advice you can use in your life today. Something you should know with Mike Karothers.

Hi, and welcome. This episode of something you should know is being sponsored by Geico.

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Now, first up, you probably know a lot about Christmas, but there's always more things to learn. For example, the first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned by British civil servants, Sir Henry Cole, in London in 1843.

One of the cards from the very first set of Christmas cards was sold at auction back in 2013 for $6,846.

The word Noel is from the French expression, Le Bonne, Newvelle, or The Good News.

Before Turkey, the traditional Christmas meal in England was a pig's head and mustard.

James Peerpont's 1857 song Jingle Bells was first called One Horse Open Sla, and it was actually written for Thanksgiving.

Many parts of the Christmas tree can be eaten. What? Really? With the needles being a good source of vitamin C, the Beatles hold the record for most Christmas number one singles in England, topping the charts in 1963, 1965, and 1967.

Electric tree lights were invented by Edward Johnson in the US in 1882, and finally in several countries, Greece, Italy, Spain, and I believe Germany, workers get a Christmas bonus of one month salary by law. And that is something you should know.

I suspect there is not a single person listening to this who hasn't started something or said they're going to start something or wanted to start something and never followed through.

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