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Question
Answer the following question:
How did the Magi want to celebrate their Christmas (OR) Who were the first people to give Christmas gifts?
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Solution
The magi were three wise men who brought gifts to Baby Jesus in the manger in a biblical story of Christmas. It is from there that the art of giving Christmas presents was invented.
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