Weird Christmas Facts

• Based on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a 12-hour period — that’s 983 homes per second.
• Kris Kringel, a man in his 40s, lives in North Pole, Alaska, and delivers pizzas for a living. He drives a 1984 Ford Tempo.
• A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
• 1 in 6 men would like to get rid of all the “gift-giving nonsense.”
• 1 in 3 men will wait until Christmas Eve to finish their shopping.
• 56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets.
• Christmas pudding should be stirred from east to west.
• Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.