Articles Advent Calendar - December 12th

[Brad]

Over these next 25 days, the Articles Department will be bringing you their rendition of the classic Christmas Advent Calendar! Advent Calendars that we are used to usually have little chocolates in them, and I'm sorry- but there's no chocolate in these ones. We will be presenting a small little snippet of reflection for you to answer a couple questions too.
There are prizes involved, so the more you participate the more chances for you to win!

Today is Day 12 of 25.

To open the Advent Calendar for today, click on the spoiler.

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December 12th
Did you know that the word Advent is from the Latin adventus for "coming" and is associated with the four weeks of preparation for Christmas?
You learn something new every day!

What have you learned so far over this holiday?

Post your answers in the comments below!

[Paige.]

I have learnt that each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. alone and I learnt this from the daily fact/Christmas thing on the tv noticeboards around college. This is crazy and I can see that there's definitely money to be made in the card industry!

[Bloop]

That there are really great deals in stores on everything lmao

[Empired]

I've learned to not try and go Christmas shopping on black friday ffs

[Cow]

That the sales have won people over.