All those Nutcrackers resting on your mother’s mantel? Yeah, they’re more than just decoration.
A lot of young people online are actually figuring that fact out for the very first time, and it’s absolutely blowing their minds!
While it may seem obvious to you, there are actually a TON of folks who are discovering this little secret.
According to The Nutcracker Museum, wood carvers in France and England were creating delicately carved intricate nutcrackers resembling humans and animals by the 15th century, but the nutcracker figurine as we know it today, which resembles toy soldiers with buttoned blazers and top hats, didn’t come into fruition until the 19th century.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker ballet debuted in 1892, which has kept renewed interest in the figurine each year.
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