This is information that little is known about, but every year the American army monitors its world tour very closely.
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The Americans are very precise: they can know in real time the status of the tour of Santa Claus, the name given to Santa Claus in the United States. The army knows, for example, that at 3:38 p.m. GMT, Sunday December 24, i.e. 2:38 p.m., Santa Claus was over Jakarta. This is where Santa’s sleigh was flashed. That is to say, it left the North Pole, it passed over Japan, Australia and so on. He traveled around the earth, obviously distributing gifts throughout his journey.
In 1955, the Sears department store chain ran an advertisement in a Colorado newspaper, in which a telephone number was given which supposedly allowed Santa Claus to be reached directly. But a typo slips into the advertisement and all the children who call do not get Santa Claus, but an officer from the military command responsible for air security in the United States and Canada (NORAD). The officer is initially surprised to be mistaken for Santa Claus, but he will play the game and ask all the soldiers on duty to inform the children about Santa’s journey between December 24 and 25. And since 1955, NORAD soldiers have perpetuated the tradition.
The tradition of Surfing Santa in Florida
This year, Santa Claus took a little detour into Space: he passed by the international station which is in orbit around the earth. He also had the honors of the President of the United States. The White House said Joe Biden and his wife closely monitored Santa’s tour. You should know that Santa Claus is capable of distributing 100,000 gifts per second and in total, in 24 hours, he will have given 5.5 billion presents around the world.
Another tradition was born in 2009 in Florida. That year, George Trosset had the idea of surfing the ocean dressed as Santa Claus. The photo went around the world and since then, every year thousands of Americans come to the beaches of Florida, many in Santa Claus costumes, for a little swim. Since then, we have been talking about Surfing Santa and it is a great initiative because many charitable operations have been born to help the most deprived and the sick.