🙀Interesting facts about New Year

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1. People start celebrating New Year from 2000 BC

2. Romans celebrated 1st March as New Year

3. The month "January" took the name from a two-faced God named Janus.

4. New Year is usually considered to the best time for making resolutions

5. People in Denmark throwing dishes at the doorsteps of other people. This is believed to bring many new friends to the person on whose dishes are thrown.

6. Spanish people have tradition to eat 12 grapes at midnight of 31st December. While eating these grapes, they will make wishes.

7. First countries which is going to celebrate New Year is Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati. And the last is - United States.

8. New Year is celebrated by several special foods in different countries. For example, in Southern US, Ireland, Germany and Italy leafy greens and legumes are associated with financial fortune.

9. The Dutch people launch fireworks and burn Christmas tree bonfires on street during the New Year Eve. The reason they do this is that burning Christmas tree bonfires signify purging of the old and launching fireworks refer to welcoming the new.

10. In Australia’s Sydney Harbour, the shoreline stretching 40 miles is crowded by more than a million people just for watching the fireworks show.

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