How heavy is Santa?

The North American Aerospace Defense Command's beloved NORAD Tracks Santa program claims Santa Claus stands at about 5-foot-7 and weighs around 260 pounds – and that's before his round-the-world cookie binge. Christmas lore experts at Yes Santa is Real suggest Mr. Claus is actually 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds.
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How much does Santa weigh After the cookies?

Answer: 400,000,000 pounds. One of the best things about mathematics of this kind is that, by approximating in this way, you can see the magnitude of your answer.
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How much did Santa Claus weigh?

Based on flight profile data gathered from over 50 years of NORAD's radar and satellite tracking, NORAD concludes that Santa probably stands about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs approximately 260 pounds (before cookies).
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Is Santa skinny or fat?

Actually, the original Santa was rather slim, but cartoonists and commercial ads artists gave him a makeover. The story of Santa Claus stems from a real man who started out as a monk and became the patron saint of children. He was known for his generosity and for discreetly helping the poor and unfortunate.
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Is Santa real yes or no?

Santa Claus is real, of course. The New York Sun even reported it back in 1897! But the current Santa Claus isn't from the North Pole. According to an article published in the Washington Post, a man from Long Island legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2012.
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How is Santa fat?

The soda giant was trying to convince consumers that Coca-Cola wasn't just a warm weather thing. Sundblom was likely inspired by the work of cartoonist Thomas Nast, who in the 1890s depicted Santa with a big warm belly.
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How fast can Santa Run?

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
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How big is Santa's Slay?

Santa's Sleigh is 6' (1.83 m) tall with an overall length of 28'8” (8.75 m). Santa's Sleigh is Santa's most important piece of equipment.
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How old is Mrs Claus?

According to Email Santa, Mrs. Claus is just a bit younger than her husband. She's 1,139 years old. And don't forget to wish her a happy birthday after you've opened your gifts this year: Her birthday is on Christmas Day, according to the website.
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How much does Santa weigh in 2021?

The North American Aerospace Defense Command's beloved NORAD Tracks Santa program claims Santa Claus stands at about 5-foot-7 and weighs around 260 pounds – and that's before his round-the-world cookie binge. Christmas lore experts at Yes Santa is Real suggest Mr.
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What is the age of Santa?

According to the blog Email Santa, Santa Claus is 1,750 years old as of 2021. In fact, the origins of Santa Claus can be traced all the way back to a monk named Saint Nicholas, who was born between 260 and 280 A.D. in a village called Patara, which is part of modern-day Turkey.
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How old is Santa physically?

Santa Claus was born out of Saint Nicholas, a Christian who was born in the year 270 AD. Now if Saint Nicholas was the actual physical being that is Santa Claus today that would make him over 1,740 years old (1,746 years old to be exact). So he would be the oldest being on our planet by far.
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When was Santa born?

The story behind Santa goes back to the third century during the time of St. Nicholas, a monk, even though some sources state that he was a bishop. Nicholas was born around 280 A.D. in Patara, in modern-day Turkey.
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How does Santa lose weight?

Poor Santa has the most trouble finding a form of exercise he can stick with. After failing with jazzerecise, yoga, the stationary bike, and weight-lifting, he settles into a daily hour-long walk with the dogs.
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How many elves does Santa have?

Santa Tracker estimates Santa employs about 110,000 elves. With so many elves, Santa's North Pole is a busy place.
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Where does Santa live?

Have your little ones ever wondered, “Where does Santa Claus live?” He lives at the North Pole, of course! Santa stays at the North Pole year-round.
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Who pulls Santa's sleigh?

In traditional festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve.
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How many reindeers Does Santa have?

What are the reindeer names? From 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, the eight reindeer are named: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen. The names have been adapted over time, with the final two originally known as Dunder and Blixem, which is Dutch for thunder and lightning.
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Where is Santa right now 2021?

Right now, Santa Claus is at the North Pole.
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Is Santa Claus still alive?

1. 26 Is Santa still alive today? This holiday season, Santa Claus will come to Chicago Ridge Mall and visit with families through a contactless experience, the mall announced. According to legend, he was born in a small Greek village in Turkey on March 15, 270 A.D. That makes him 1,751 years old in 2021.
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How does Santa get in your house?

Santa Claus has a magic key that he uses to get into homes, apartments, townhouses and condos without a chimney. He also uses this key for homes that have a chimney that is too small for him to fit down (too many Christmas cookies makes it a tight fit).
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Is Santa obese?

Ever since a “chubby” Santa came down the chimney in “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” he has appeared to be, as one paper puts it, “plump to obese.” While researchers have not ascertained Santa's exact weight or body mass index, there is consensus that he's in the unhealthy range.
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Why is Santa called Santa?

In December 1773, and again in 1774, a New York newspaper reported that groups of Dutch families had gathered to honor the anniversary of his death. The name Santa Claus evolved from Nick's Dutch nickname, Sinter Klaas, a shortened form of Sint Nikolaas (Dutch for Saint Nicholas).
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Is Santa called the big guy?

But where did he come from? St. Nicholas, Kris Kringle and Santa Claus are all names for the big guy in red here at home.
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