Every Christmas Eve, thousands of kids from around the world use NORAD to track Santa's whereabouts. Since the 1950s, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) has done so using a "radar system." But the story of how it started—with a typo—is even more incredible than the job itself.
You see, back in 1955, a man named Harry Shoup was the head of the defense command in the US. The way his kids tell it, he had two phones on his desk, one of which was red because it was a private military line. Only one other person had the number to it: a general at the Pentagon. Then one day in December, it rang and a boy asked, "Is this Santa Claus?"
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