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5,000 Number of “Santa-free area” stickers that German priest Eckhard Bieger has sold so far. Bieger, of Frankfurt’s Jesuit order, wants to remind people of the difference between St. Nicholas as a traditional figure and Santa Claus as a marketing tool. The stickers cost the equivalent of about 50 cents.

144 Number of grams of fat (along with 2,400 total calories) in a box of a dozen Original Glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts. One such box a month for life is the reward Krispy Kreme is offering for the safe return of a 20-by-10-foot blimp that was tethered outside its new Burlington, Wash.,

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