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Although he is commonly referred to as Saint Nick, who was the actual Saint Nicholas? And more importantly, did he truly exist? Click through the gallery to discover everything there is to know ...

Mark Dembert, an epidemiologist from the Navy Environmental Health Center in Norfolk, Virginia, had a merry side gig in the ’80s: When he wasn’t studying diseases, he dressed up as St.