Santa will consume close to 70 billion calories if, as expected, he nibbles on a cookie and gulps a glass of milk at each of his 396 million (or so) stops. But there is much more. Santa’s Delivery Schedule. Describing Santa’s Christmas Eve deliveries, we can ask who, where, and what. Defining a child as anyone 14 or younger, they have to be Christian (and good?). Then, it gets trickier. After all some Christians don’t observe Christmas on December 25 or at all. But giving ourselves lots of statistical leeway, we can say that Santa will need to visit between 500 million and 900 million children. Then though, if we assume an average of 2.5 children in each home, the number of stops shrinks to as few as 132 million homes. ….[READ]
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