In Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas," stockings were hung by the chimney with care, and Santa has filled them with candy and toys on Christmas Eve ever since.

However, when you dig deeper into the stories of yesteryear, legend speaks of St. Nicholas specifically tossing a ball of gold into a girl’s stocking to spare her from suffering, but those balls of gold were likened by Europeans to a rare and exotic fruit we call oranges.

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