Things You'll Only See In Russia

New Year's Day

New Year's Day is a beloved Russian holiday. All businesses are closed and no one goes to work. Russians also tend to take time off the week between Christmas and New Years Day. January 1st through the 5th are also national holidays. These days are spent drinking, partying, and celebrating with friends and family. 

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The More You Know

  • Danny Devito used to work as a hairdresser. For corpses.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
  • A cow-bison hybrid is called a "beefalo."
  • A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
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