What are some of your favorite New Year’s Eve traditions?

We all know about the ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, but there are plenty of New Year’s Eve traditions that are stranger than that.

Here are seven of the best:

• Some South American nations wear colored underwear to represent your fortune for the next year: red underwear means you’ll find love, gold means wealth, and white signifies peace.
• The Takanakuy Festival in Peru consists of a fist fight to settle differences, followed by a clean slate.
• The French consume a new stack of pancake on the new year for good luck.
• Belgians and Romanians try to communicate with their cows. If they succeed, they will have bad luck.
• In parts of South Africa, they throw furniture out the window.
• In Siberia, they jump into frozen lakes carrying tree trunks.
• In Estonia, people eat seven times on New Year’s Day to ensure abundance in the New Year.

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