U.S. Launches Large-Scale Strikes on ISIS Targets in Syria.

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Have you ever wondered which country celebrates the New Year first and which one is last? 🌍 New Year doesn’t arrive everywhere at once, shaped by time zones and the International Date Line 🗺 To find the very first celebration, you go right to that line and discover Kiribati 🇰🇮 a remote nation of about 120,000 people. Even wilder: the earliest fireworks can happen in villages named Banana 🍌 London, Paris and Poland. Kiribati is also why the Date Line looks so twisted on map, as it was shifted by thousands of kilometers so the country wouldn’t live on two different days. After Kiribati, midnight hits New Zealand 🇳🇿 and Australia 🇦🇺 then rolls through Asia, Europe and Africa 🌏 before it finally reaches the Americas 🌎 And when almost the whole planet is already in the new year, the last inhabited countdown happens in American Samoa 🇺🇸 Just 70 km away is Samoa 🇼🇸 separated by a mind-bending 25-hour difference ⏳ making it possible to celebrate New Year twice 🎆 Even later come Baker and Howland Islands uninhabited, so the only ones celebrating are seabirds 🐦🥂


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