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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 of Taylor Swift

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1) Her full name is Taylor Alison Swift.

2) Taylor's mom wanted to name her Taylor because if you saw her name on a business card you wouldn't know if it was a boy or girl.

3) She was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.

4) A computer repairman taught her how to play three chords on the guitar when she was 12, and this inspired her to writer her first song "Lucky You”.

5) Some of her nicknames are Tay, T-Swift, Swifty, T-Swizzle, T-Sweezy.
6) She is very musical. She can play guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele and electric guitar.

7) At 11-years-old she won a local talent competition singing LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal".

8) She says Shania Twain is her greatest influence, but is also "devoted" to Britney Spears.
9) She has 7 Grammy Awards, 11 American Music Awards, and 6 Country Music Association Awards.

10) She has received two Golden Globe Award nominations.

11) In 2013, she became the second person (and first woman) to receive the Country Music Association's Pinnacle Award.

12) Taylor used Myspace to develop her fanbase, which was unheard of in country music at the time.

13) Only two musicians in history have a BMI award named after them: Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift.

14) She is the only woman in history to win the 'album of the year' grammy award twice.
15) She loves talking her fans on social media and paying surprise visits/sending surprise gifts to them .

16) Whenever she visits Starbucks she always pays for the person standing behind her in the queue.

17) She once bought plane tickets for a fan to attend her upcoming concert because they missed out the previous one because of flight delay.
18) She is infamous for writing break up songs. But true fans know about a lot of songs that are about other stuff too.
_ 'Ronan' is a sad song about a cancer victim. 
_'The best day' is a song dedicated to her mom and her childhood days.
_ 'Tell Me Why' is a song about bullies. Similarly there are other songs like 'Sweeter than fiction', 'Mean', 'Innocent' , 'Tied Together with a smile', 'The outside', 'A place in this world'.

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