Some Christmas/Christian things to clear up...

As I live in Israel, which is populated mostly by Jews and Muslims, I get a lot of questions about what exactly Christmas is. In light of this, I offer up the following information:

• Christmas is the day Jesus was born, not the day he died. The day he died is Easter.
  
• The Christian new year starts four Sundays before Christmas. The January-December year is the Julian calendar and has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever, aside from the fact that we use it.
• New Year's Eve/Silvester has nothing to do with Christianity; Jesus didn't do anything cool on that day. The name originally came from St. Sylvester, who was a Catholic Pope. It is still celebrated as his feast day in the Catholic church, but not in the Protestant church. Either way, it's not a "holiday" per se and certainly nothing that warrants the celebrations typically seen on New Year's Eve/Silverster. New Year's Eve as we know it now is an entirely secular holiday.
• Santa Claus has nothing to do with Christianity. He's the secular mascot for Christmas, though many Christians incorporate him into their personal celebrations. Santa Claus is to Christmas what Bicycle Day is to Yom Kippur; it's the non-religious equivalent.
  
• The 12 Days of Christmas are actually the 12 days after Christmas, not the 12 leading up to it. They start on 25 December (Christmas) and end on 6 January (Epiphany).

Any other questions?