Stunned with Santa's 'terrible' workload

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus consumes 150 billion calories and "breaks in" 5,556 houses per second .

A Christmas season is coming again. Recently, British scientists have come up with an interesting statistics table to calculate the huge amount of work as well as the number of food calories that Santa will consume in the coming Christmas day.

Travel distance: about 54,000 times the circumference of the Earth

The reindeer is a good companion, taking him all the way, however, Santa sometimes has to walk. This distance is up to 2.08 billion km, about 54,000 times the circumference of the Earth.

Number of children receiving gifts: 1.6 billion children

Researchers estimate that about 1.6 billion children worldwide will receive Christmas gifts this year. And to be able to give all the gifts to all of them, Santa will have to "break in" into 5,556 houses in every second. The time that Santa works up to 32 hours, not 24 hours as usual due to the movement of the Earth.

Number of times to stop giving gifts: 640 million times

With an average of 2.5 children per household, Santa will have 640 million stops on Christmas Eve. If he enjoyed the mince and milk pie at each address, his total consumption would amount to 150 billion calories per night - 60,000 times the recommended amount of Santa's calorie.

Gift wrapping speed and gift cost: 10 seconds / box and VND 9.6 million trillion

The researchers also calculated that the gift wrapping rate was 10 seconds and to wrap beautiful gift boxes for all children around the world needed 3,000 tiny people to work 8 hours a day for a year. Moreover, if each gift requires 80 cm of wrapping paper, to complete this project, 3.2 million km of paper will be consumed.

With 2m of paper costing nearly 1 USD (about 21,000 VND), Santa will lose a total of about 1.27 billion pounds (equivalent to 43.8 trillion VND) of gift wrapping paper. The total amount he spent during the Christmas season this year will reach £ 279 billion (equivalent to VND 9.6 million trillion). This amount will be enough for you to travel around the world 60 times and over 6 chances to set foot on the Moon.

With each average gift taking 0.008m of block, to store such a huge amount of gifts, Santa needs to find a space similar to 240,000 double-decker buses.

Food consumption: 130 million liters of milk

Suppose Santa needs to visit 640 million homes to give gifts, the children thank him and let him have a 200ml half-empty cup of milk with a minced meat pie, Santa will consume a total of 130 million liters of milk at the time he completed his delivery work.

Interestingly, the amount of milk consumed is enough to fill 50 Olympic swimming pools. Along with that, the number of minced meat pie he "enjoyed" will reach 40,000 tons.

Although the estimates are not 100% accurate, EngineeringUK Executive Director, Paul Jackson, said: " With each passing Christmas season, we calculate the number table. The most authentic material for all of us, and even Santa Claus, to better understand the importance of science, computing techniques, and existing technology systems. "