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Here's an interesting thing I learned today - the origin of Santa Claus carrying around a bag of gifts comes from the depictions of Saint Nicholas of Myra, and a story about how he had heard of a poor family whose father was going to sell his three daughters into prostitution, and so under the cover of darkness the bishop Nicholas wrapped three gold pieces in a cloth and hurled them into the house where the girls lived. Over time the image of the generous 14th-century saint carrying around gifts turned into the Coca-Cola pitchman we know in the present day.