Quick facts about Santa Claus you may not have known ;)

How reindeer fly

So how do my reindeer fly? Well they are a rare breed indeed, but I have a team of elves that are dedicated to finding reindeer that are capable of what some call, the gas-bang theory… It also takes close to 350 years to train a reindeer…

Well the reindeer is capable of converting the gas generated from eating a lot of beans and cauliflower into a lighter gas than the oxygen found in the air. When this happens, it actually allows the reindeer to float, and the lighter the gas, the higher it can fly…

- Santa’s Journal

How Mr. & Mrs. Claus met

Mrs Claus and I met a long time ago, back when I was only delivering presents in Europe… On this particular Christmas Eve, I was in what is now Denmark, and was going to deliver some gold to Adriaan Ganesvoort… So after I threw both bags through the window, I realized that one of them was the wrong bag, it contained a variation of marbles for Adriaan’s neighbour. Now I had to find a way to get that bag back and replace it with the proper one…

I took a couple steps back, started running and jumped up into the window and just when I thought I was going to go through and land on the floor, I got stuck – stuck in the window frame… I thought I was really quiet, but then I heard a young woman ask if I needed help. I looked up, and there she was, the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on…

So as we tried to come up with some ideas to help me out, we spoke. I found out that she had a good heart, loved helping children and wanted to spend the rest of her life doing good. I was in love…

So now I was in love, and stuck in a window. I looked down in despair and noticed something – a latch. I was stuck in only half the window! I opened the latch and the wooden panel opened up, and I fell to the ground. Now Mrs. Claus was embarrassed for having not realized that the window was half-closed. She apologized, and I chuckled my first ho ho ho!

Then I took a gamble. Right there on Christmas Eve, in Denmark, I proposed to Mrs. Claus. She said yes, and the rest is history.

- Santa’s Journal