Other facts I found interesting state that even though most of Santa's reindeer have male-sounding names, like Blitzen, Cupid and Comet, because those reindeer have antlers they are likely female! Also, scientists in Norway have a theory that Rudolph's nose is red because he has a parasitic infection in his respiratory system! Awww, poor Rudolph! New Yoir, NY: Little, Brown and Company.) The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey. The force of this acceleration would reduce Santa to “chunky salsa.”g (Highfield, Roger. To reach all 842 million stops, Santa would need to travel between houses in 2/10,000 second, which means he would need to accelerate 12.19 million miles (20.5 billion meters) per second on each stop. If there are on average 2.5 children per household, Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles.
I found tidbit # 49 helps our argument that Santa has helpers: Over the years, as our children grew up, we often had discussions about how Santa was able to get to all the children in the world on Christmas Eve. Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas. He is the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.d ( Grossman, John. Born in Patara (in modern-day Turkey), he is the world’s most popular non-Biblical saint, and artists have portrayed him more often than any other saint except Mary. Nikolas of Myra (also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker, Bishop Saint Nicholas of Smyrna, and Nikolaos of Bari), who lived during the fourth century.
Check it out and see how many things you already knew.
I found this website called, and there are some neat tidbits of trivia that were new to me.
I had such a great response to last week's blog about the history of X-Mas that I thought I would see what else I could dig up about this season.
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