Since 1955, NORAD has helped kids all over the world track Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, and thanks to smartphones and social media websites, it's easier than ever before to figure out where good ol' Saint Nick is traveling to next.
The Santa Tracker program started on Dec. 24, 1955, when a Sears store printed an ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper inviting children to contact Santa, according to NORAD.com.
The paper printed the wrong number however, and instead kids were connected to the Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. The staff on duty that night were instructed to start giving children the "location for Santa Claus," thus beginning a new holiday tradition, according to NORAD.com.
NORAD replaced CONAD in 1958, and now there is such a demand to know Santa's exact location that volunteers are brought in to man the phones on Christmas Eve.
Click here to access the NORAD Santa Tracker.
Approximately 12,000 emails and 70,000 phone calls from over 200 countries are received on Christmas Eve, according to NORAD.com.
The Santa Tracker becomes more popular each year, thanks to the introduction of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Kids can get updates sent to their phones or access The Santa Tracker app on a smartphone device to know the exact location of the man with all the toys.
Santa delivers presents to around 1.6 billion children on Christmas Eve every year, visiting 822 homes a second while traveling 650 miles a second, according to NORAD.com.
Kris Kringle had delivered approximately 730,000,000 gifts at press time.
To contact NORAD, you can call 1-877-HI-NORAD, and via email at noradtracksanta@outlook.com.
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