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Which military organization gives Santa's current coordinates by phone in December?

In 1955, a store in the US city of Colorado Springs placed an ad in the newspaper before Christmas, inviting children to call Santa Claus. However, the phone number was incorrectly entered, and calls began to come to the air defense command center, whose specialists did not hang up, but began to tell the children the coordinates of the place where Santa was flying at the moment. Since then, the military has made taking calls from children an annual tradition called "NORAD Tracks Santa" with many volunteers helping to keep them going. Nowadays, from December 1 of each year, you can get real-time coordinates of Santa Claus on the official website of the program.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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