Little Known Facts: Average "Expanded Time" for Santa to visit one house: 2 minutes, 45 seconds.
Real Christmas Trivia
When Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie wrote "Sant Claus is Coming to Town" in 1932, no one in the music industry was interested. Coots showed it to Eddie Cantor whose wife, Ida, convinced him to feature it on his radio show in 1934. The rest ... is history.