The real Saint Nick, or Nicholas of Myra, was a Greek Bishop born in what is now Turkey in 270AD.

Coca-Cola was not the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa Claus in its advertising. White Rock Beverages had already used a red and white Santa to sell mineral water in 1915 and then in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923.

Santa is also the patron saint of pawnbroking, scholarship, butchery, orphans, and haberdashery.

In the 1969 animated Christmas television special based on the song, Santa finds Karen crying over a melted Frosty. But Santa tells her Frosty can never melt away forever because he's made of Christmas snow and will return every winter.

NORAD has tracked Santa and his reindeer every year since 1955.

With more than 2,000 churches dedicated to him in France and Germany alone, St. Nicholas is the world's most popular non-Biblical saint.

If Santa's feeling a little tired from delivering all those presents, a little coffee from the children of Sweden should give him a fresh jolt of jolliness.

The reconstruction shows a rugged looking man with a broken nose that has healed asymmetrically.

In Miracle on 34th Street, Kris Kringle is upset to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. When he complains to the event coordinator, she persuades Kris to take his place.

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night