December 31 facts
While investigating facts about December 31, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Valery Spiridonov, a 31 year old man who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman's - a muscle-wasting disease which has left him in a wheelchair, has volunteered to partake in the world's first head transplant which will take place as early as December of 2017.
If the history of the universe was condensed into a year, the Milky Way would form on May 15, life on earth would appear on September 21, and the dinosaurs would go extinct on December 30. Modern humans would evolve on December 31 at 11:52 PM and Columbus would discover America at 11:59:58 PM.
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 32 of the best facts about December 31 I managed to collect.
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The last song of the '90s was Sisqó's "Thong Song" which was released on December 31, 1999.
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There is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365
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The mp3 format will be almost totally patent-free on December 31, 2017
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The Spanish have a tradition consisting of eating a grape with each bell strike at midnight of December 31
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That, in 1844, the Philippines moved from one side of the International Date Line to the other, which means that December 31, 1844 did not exist for them.
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Phillis Wheatley died at the age of 31, on December 5th, 1784. Her son died a few hours later.
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Since first being implemented in 1972, there have been 27 "leap seconds" inserted into global timekeeping to account for irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation, most recently on December 31, 2016
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National holidays in Mexico include Independence Day (September 16), Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Las Posadas (December 16 to December 24), Noche Buena (December 24), Navidad (December 25), Año Nuevo (December 31 to January 1), Twelfth Night of Christmas (January 5), and the Day of the Dead (November 2).
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About Longplayer, a composition comprised of six short pieces of music designed to play without repetition for 1,000 years. It began playing at midnight on 31 December 1999. Its permanent home is Trinity Bouy Wharf in London, and it can be streamed online.
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By December 31, 1973, only fifty American military personnel remained in South Vietnam.
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In 2007 a puzzle was released and $2 million prize was offered for the first complete solution. The competition ended at noon on 31 December 2010, with no solution being found.
The Compromise was officially tabled on December 31.
The battle was fought from December 31, 1862 until January 2, 1863.
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
To determine freshness of eggs, a Julian date or pack-date calendar is printed on the carton. This three-digit code indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365. - source
You are not allowed to donate blood to other countried if you lived in the UK for over 6 months between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world, is said to be the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world It had an endowment of US$44.3 billion as of 31 December 2014
Windows 1.0 was supported for 16 years - From November 20, 1985 to December 31, 2001.
20th century officially ended on 31 December 2000, and 21st century started in 2001, not in 2000 as many people might think. The same goes for all other centuries as well.
There was mysterious mass bird death in Beebe, Arkansas on December 31, 2010
There are 2 definitions of when a "Century" starts and ends. Strictly speaking, the "20th Century" didn't end until December 31, 2000.
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