Dec 31 facts
While investigating facts about Dec 31, I found out little known, but curios details like:
There is an upcoming experimental film called Ambiancé that will be released in Dec 31, 2020. It will have a running time of 720 hours, or 30 days and will be screened globally then destroyed after its initial screening. This will make it "the longest film made that doesn’t exist".
In Israel, New Year's Eve is called "Sylvester" — named for the Catholic Saint/Pope Sylvester I whose saint day is on Dec. 31 — because the name "New Year" is already associated with the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), and modern Israelites wanted to celebrate the Gregorian New Year too
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about Dec 31 I managed to collect.
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Facebook's error of friendships existing since Dec. 31, 1969 is a common technology glitch where Unix resets to its epoch date of January 1, 1970, and USA is still in December 31 compared to Greenwich time
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Due to the Leap Second the last second of 2016 will be 23:59:60 Saturday, 31 dec 2016 . Countdowns will have to start a second after to accommodate it.
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A $1 investment in the S&P 500 stock index on Jan. 1, 1966 to Dec. 31, 2015 and reinvested all dividends you would have $102.17. Over 102 times your original investment.
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“Longplayer” is a piece of music that is designed to play for 1000 years. It started playing on Jan 1, 2000. It will continue without repetition until Dec 31, 2999 at which point it will restart.
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Two B-17 bombers piggybacked and crashed on Dec. 31, 1944, leading Germans to think they were seeing some new Allied secret weapon
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In Korea, if you were born on Dec. 31 you would be 1 years old and the following day you would be 2 years old.
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.. the chemistry, effects and dangers of drinking cheap moonshine ( or heavy drinking in general ) from an ER doctor who explains a New Years Eve hangover case which became an emergency 31 Dec 2012 - 09 Jan 2013.
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The 1996 Sugar Bowl, the game in The Replacements that Shane Falco famously choked in, was truly fictional... there was no 1996 Sugar Bowl. There were two Sugar Bowls in 1995: one on Jan 2 to end the 1994 season, and one on Dec 31 to end the 1995 season. The next one was played on Jan 2, 1997.
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In 2015, a 29-year-old Oregonian shattered the world big watching record. He saw 6,042 of the world's estimated 10,400 bird species in a journey across all seven continents from Jan 1 to Dec 31 (previous record: 4,341).
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