Dec 31st facts
While investigating facts about Dec 31st, I found out little known, but curios details like:
For $255,500 you can buy a package that lets you celebrate New Year's Eve in Sydney from 8pm - 2am, then fly on a private jet that arrives in Los Angeles at 8:30pm Dec. 31st, where you can celebrate New Year's Eve all over again.
At midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
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 4 of the best facts about Dec 31st I managed to collect.
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United airlines flight UA890 (Boeing 780 – 909) took off in 2017 and landed in 2016: It took off from Shanghai, China on 1st Jan 2017 at 12:15am to land in San Francisco, US on 31st Dec 2016 at 6.23pm
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A leap second happened at midnight 31st Dec 2016 and thus all clocks that reported midnight were most likely one second early.
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