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“New Year’s Eve Around the World: 20 Fascinating Facts About December 31st”

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New Zealand is among the first countries to celebrate New Year’s Eve due to its time zone. In Spain, people eat 12 grapes at midnight for good luck. It's like  If you can finish all 12 grapes within the first minute, you'll have a lucky new year. Sydney, Australia, hosts one of the world’s largest New Year’s Eve fireworks displays. In Japan, Buddhist temples ring their bells 108 times on New Year’s Eve. Brazil’s beaches turn into celebrations with millions dressed in white for peace. Scotland’s Hogmanay festival involves fire ceremonies and a torch-lit procession. In Italy, wearing red underwear on December 31st is believed to bring love and luck. The famous New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York’s Times Square started in 1907. Denmark celebrates by smashing plates on friends’ doorsteps for good fortune. In the Philippines, people wear polka dots for prosperity. South Koreans gather at the Bosingak Belfry in Seoul for a ceremonial bell-ringing. The ancient Romans celebrated Decem...

Interesting Facts #4

1) McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli (yuck)

2) The first oranges weren’t “orange”

3) A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo” (cowson or bicow would have been nice too. Sounds silly but still)

4) Scotland has 421 words for “snow” (like feefle, flinkdrinkin, etc…)

5) Peanuts aren’t technically nuts (they are seeds)

6) The longest English word is 189,819 letters long.

7) Cats have fewer toes on their back paws (Maybe to help them run faster?)

8) Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple (It actually makes sense…)

9) The man with the world’s deepest voice can make sounds humans can’t hear (how is that even possible?)

10) There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive

11) You only have two body parts that never stop growing (ever wondered why old people have big noses and ears?)

12)The # symbol isn’t officially called hashtag ( technical name is octothorpe)

13) Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long (also they use it to clean their ears)

14) The inventor of the microwave appliance only received $2 for his discovery (I am not kidding)

15) Glitter was made on a ranch (it was created by mistake)

16) Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches (better suffer than get treated)

17) Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics (Come on horses, you can do better)

18) The Terminator script was sold for $1 (and the movie got profit in millions)

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