5 Christmas Facts for you to crunch on.
1. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) tracks Santa and his sleigh every year on radar.
They've been doing it for the past 40 years. Check out their website .
2.The Canadian Post Office has given Santa Claus his own official postal code at the North Pole. Santa's address, according to the Canadian post office is: Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO, CANADA. So he has his own postal code (HO HO HO). The post office even promises that you can write to Santa there and he'll reply.
3) Jesus Christ was not born on December 25.The Bible, which can be taken as the only authoritative source on the matter, contains no indication of exactly which day of the year the birth of Jesus occurred. But it does contain evidence that the birth could not have occurred in December. The Gospel of Luke notes that shepherds were tending their flocks in the field at night when an angel appeared to them announcing the birth of Christ, but shepherds would not have been outside with their flocks at night in the middle of winter. December 25 was only chosen as the date to celebrate Christmas in the fourth century because this date corresponded to existing pagan celebrations.
4)The modern image of a fat, red-suited Santa Claus was invented by the Coca-Cola Company.
In 1931 Coca-Cola commissioned the artist Haddon Sundblom to create images of Santa Claus drinking from a bottle of Coke. Sundblom's depictions of Santa became very, very popular, but it's not accurate to say that Sundblom actually invented the modern image of Santa. By the early twentieth century Santa was already commonly being depicted as a fat, jolly, red-suited, long-bearded old man.
5)1 in 6 men would like to get rid of all the "gift-giving nonsense."
What bigoted idiots.
Well deck the halls and all that carol nonesense!
Merry ChRistMas!
