During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth is closest to the sun. The change in season only has to do with the tilt of Earth.
The city with the most snow in the world is Aomori Japan, with them getting 26 feet of snow on average.
Snowflakes can be identical. While it is rare for them to be, it has been found that snowflakes can form identical crystal patterns, proved by a pair of twin snowflakes found in Wisconsin in 1988.
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was created in Chicago in 1939, in a poem created by an ad agency.
In Roman times, December was not a month as the calendar only had 10 months.
Cites
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89881/15-surprising-facts-about-winter-weather
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/ct-perspec-1218-things-20111214-story.html