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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.

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A suicide bomber planning on detonating in Moscow at New Year's Eve, used her phone as the trigger. When her mobile phone company sent her a spam message, the bomb detonated, killing only herself.

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  1. The last thing on BBC Television before it was switched off on the eve of the Second World War was a Mickey Mouse show which was aired at around 12.35pm on 1st September 1939. Seven years later BBC Television returned with a repeat of the same Mickey Mouse programme.

  2. The Epic of Gilgamesh depicts stories that are virtually identical to Adam & Eve and Noah's Flood, but predates the Bible by at least a thousand years, indicating that the Christian stories are not original but derived from ancient Mesopotamian legend

  3. On new years eve in 2010, restaurateur Ted Balestreri offered to open a bottle of 1870 Lafite Rothschild, one of the rarest wines in the world, for former CIA director Leon Panetta if he captured Osama Bin Laden. Five months later, Osama Bin Laden was captured and the bottle of wine was opened.

  4. Grateful Dead played the final concert at the iconic Winterland venue in San Francisco on New Years Eve 1978 which lasted over 8 hours. The guests were treated to a hot buffet breakfast at dawn when the show ended.

  5. On New Year's Eve, 1999, Brad Pitt rented a Mexican resort, filled it with his friends and at midnight had the government cut the power and phone lines and send in troops to raid the compound and "arrest" one of his best friends on drug charges - all as a practical joke!

  6. On New Year's Eve 2014, 835 of 1000 police officers meant to be on duty in Rome phoned in sick.

  7. DJ Carl Cox played the Millennium (1999 to 2000) on New Year's Eve twice, by performing in Sydney, Australia and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.

  8. Players in the online game "EVE Online" spent an entire year of real time infiltrating an in-game corporation; an ended up looting the equivalent of $16,500 USD of in game items.

  9. Google is offering $20 million to any private team that can land on the moon by New Year's Eve of 2016

  10. The Space Shuttle couldn't fly on new years day / eve because it couldn't handle the year rollover

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year eve fact data chart about This chart shows high and low temperatures on New Year's Eve
This chart shows high and low temperatures on New Year's Eve in Times Square since 1907 (the first year they dropped the ball). Data from the National Weather Center.

year eve fact data chart about This chart shows high and low temperatures on New Year's Eve
This chart shows high and low temperatures on New Year's Eve in Times Square since 1907 (the first year they dropped the ball)

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All 3000lbs of confetti released in Times Square on New Year's Eve for the last 25 years is done by hand and not machine launchers. It has been coordinated by "The Confetti King" Treb Heining for the last 25 years.

Two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from falling bullets from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve. - source

Emily, a three-year-old cow, escaped from a slaughterhouse in 1995 and wandered the backyards and woods of Boston's suburbs for 40 days. She ran with herds of deer and was given help from residents to evade capture. She was eventually purchased by a "Peace Abbey" on Christmas Eve. - source

On New Years Eve, Paramedics in New Orleans, LA are required to wear Kevlar infused combat helmets for the 15 minutes before and after midnight because of the frequency of falling bullets.

Over 80% of Rome's police officers called in sick on New Years Eve. - source

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In Puerto Rico, about two people die, and 25 more are injured due to falling bullets from celebratory gunfire on New Years Eve.

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The New Orleans EMS has a policy stating that all EMS must wear their Kevlar helmets between 11:45 pm and 12:15 am on New Year's Eve.

Researchers in the Netherlands have found that, on New Year’s Eve, birds fly much higher than normal to avoid the fireworks.

All living humans are related to a single woman through an broken, maternal line. She is known as Mitochondrial Eve and is estimated to have lived around 100,000 - 200,000 years ago.

There is a place in outback Australia where New Year's Eve occurs thrice every year due to the intersection of 3 timezones.

Reynaldo Dagsa, a councilman from the Philippines, was assassinated while he was taking a picture of his family on New Year's Eve, and the picture showed the killer pointing a gun at Dagsa, moments before shooting him; the photo was later used to capture the killer.

Year eve infographics

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My heart rate on New Year's Eve (fit-bit was on PST)


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One Times Square is a mostly vacant building. Is considered one of the most valuable advertising locations in the world. One Times Square remained a major focal point of Times Square due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities

A suicide bombers plan to blow herself up on New Year’s Eve was thwarted by a spam “Happy New Year” text message from her cell phone provider which prematurely detonated her explosive in her safe house.

Every year there is an auction to stay in the "A Christmas Story" house on Christmas Eve and Day. The experience includes gifts like the bunny suit and leg lamp. Also, the money goes to charity.

At an illegal 2005 New Year's Eve party within the 1,500 mile Odessa Catacombs, Ukraine, a 19 year old girl wandered off down one of the tunnels and remained missing for two years before being found dead.

The Burj Khalifa holds many records including the tallest building ever built, the building with the most floors, highest occupied floor, highest observation deck, highest outdoor observation deck, highest nightclub, highest restaurant, and the highest New Year's Eve fireworks display.

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You're 8x more likely to die walking home drunk than driving home drunk. Happy New Year's Eve!

AC/DC and Journey both played their first concert on the same night - New Year's Eve, 1973.

All humans on Earth share a common male ancestor called Y-chromosomal Adam and a common female ancestor called Mitochondrial Eve who lived about 50,000 years apart.

The 1967 Ice Bowl was the coldest title game in NFL history and the coldest New Years Eve in the history of Green Bay. 7 members of the marching band were rushed the hospital for hypothermia, 1 spectator died and when the referee blew his whistle to signal the start of play it froze to his lips.

The city of Flagstaff, Arizona has it's own New Years Eve tradition called The Great Pinecone Drop where a giant lit pinecone is dropped from a downtown hotel twice, once at 10 to coincide with the New York ball drop and once at midnight local time.

Young Earth Creationists believe that not only did dinosaurs live with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 4,000 years ago, but all carnivorous animals, including the T-Rex, were originally vegetarians.

The New Years Eve ball dropping symbolizes time balls used for maritime navigation

There was an 'Eve'. By tracking mitochondrial DNA (we get it directly from our mothers, no recombination), everyone on the planet has a single female ancestor who lived approx. 100,000 years ago.

In 1997, In London, scientists reported the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

In 1775 Benedict was serving as a colonel in the Continental Army when they attacked Quebec City on New Year's Eve. Benedict was promoted to brigadier general after his leg was shattered.

Jock Yablosnki. Assasinated in his own home on New Year's Eve, along with his wife and daughter, after fighting for UMWA rights. The assassination was paid for with money embezzled from union funds, the same union miners Jock was trying to help.

There is a tradition in Italy of wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve to bring good luck for the upcoming year.

Times Square (formerly known as Longacre Square) was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building – now One Times Square – the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop

New Horizons has its next target and will visit a Kuiper belt object nearly 1 billion miles from pluto on New Years eve 2018

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