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Think Santa Claus is just some fictional character conjured up to take attention away from baby Jesus? WRONG! There was an actual Saint Nick who was present at the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325 and, according to legend, slapped the taste out of the mouth of some guy who was promoting heretical teaching. Awesome!

Want to know more? Here are 7 other things you probably didn't know about the real Saint Nick:

He suffered from terrible rosacea: Those poor rosy, red cheeks and nose like a cherry!

He trained as an MMA fighter before becoming fat and jolly: This training proved to come in handy when encountering heretics.

Ironically, he confessed on his deathbed that his favorite holiday was Arbor Day: Now you finally know why we put trees in our home

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