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New Year and Christmas are really magical holidays, which make many people in the world literally go crazy, for example, in the United States Christmas spending on various purchases make up one sixth of all others for the whole year. IN in general, and in other countries, approximately the same the picture, including here in Russia, however, with the only difference that Russians are more generous on New Year than on Christmas.
And let’s look at other interesting, almost magical facts inherent in these two most beloved and most mysterious holidays of our planet.
For example, in Peru there is still a village, residents which, according to tradition, all accumulated disputes are resolved on December 31 in fist fight, and then amicably go to celebrate the New Year – from pure sheet.
But the residents of Oslo every year give Londoners a huge spruce for their famous Triumphal Square. This is a little gratitude. for Norway’s assistance from Great Britain in World War II the war.
Japan has a tradition for decades Spend Christmas dinner at the KFC fast food restaurant. Fast food on this day is so popular that getting into an institution, where they are treated, it’s not so easy, you need a table in the KFC restaurant order in a month, or even earlier.
Swedish people traditionally watch these holidays cartoons about the Christmas adventures of Donald Duck, and TV screens rivet a large part of the country’s population, as it says, from small to large. And this is despite the Internet and others New Year’s entertainment.
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In Moscow at Christmas on Manezhnaya Square, according to tradition festivities will take place with a giant treat for everyone pie with apples and cherries. This year its sizes will be approximately 4 by 3 meters. Although something like Muscovites and guests The capital of Russia is waiting in every park.
And finally, a rather interesting fact: Paul McCartney at one time composed a Christmas song called Wonderful Christmastime, which still annually on the eve of the New Year brings him about a million dollars in deductions. Moreover, critics call this the worst song Paul ever made in his life. And let’s we listen to it performed by the author himself, see the old music video and evaluate the work yourself, given our New Year’s mood. If the song is not even special for someone like the same musical masters, the video will give us at least the opportunity to look at the young McCartney and remember perhaps his youth …
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