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December Highlight– Santa W ho better to highlight as our senior of the month other than Santa himself. Yep, I ’ m talking about one of the most long –lived characters of all time. The man who lives at the North Pole, with his bright red suit and jolly attitude. You might think you know everything there is to know about old Kris Kringle, or Jolly Old Saint Nick, or any of the dozens of different names he's called around the globe. But we're willing to bet there are a few things you've never heard about him. Maybe you're one of those Scrooges who doesn't care about Santa Claus anymore
because you think he's just a myth. Well if that's true, then you've likely never heard that since 2006 Claus hasn't been included in the "Forbes Fictional 15," an annual list of top fictional characters. Why, you say... It ’ s because they received too many letters from angry readers insisting he was real . "After taking into account the physical evidence–toys delivered, milk and cookies devoured," the editors explained, "we felt it was safer to remove him from consideration." Did you also know he must have the fastest sleigh (or reindeer) on the planet. Consider for a moment that he has to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, and has 31 hours to do it (thanks to time zone differences). It's been calculated that to get to every house in that time period, his sleigh needs to move at 1,800 miles per second . Lest you were concerned that Santa wasn't legal to fly, he was officially issued a pilot's license from the U.S. government in 1927. He also has a passport, but that's a bit more controversial. Both Santa and Mrs. Claus received their very own ePassport's in 2013. Santa didn't get a little round belly that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly from eating too much broccoli. No, Kris Kringle loves his sweets. And he has millions of kids across the globe encouraging his bad habits. And we ’ re also pretty sure he must be the smartest senior on the planet because he knowns whether or not 7.8 billion people on earth have been naughty or nice this year. Whatever
you think, Santa has that Ho, Ho, Ho down pat so we ’ ll quit with his famous line “ Merry Christmas to ALL and to ALL a good night ”! ( some of these facts were
taken from best- lifeonline.com)
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