10 Strange New Year’s Facts

🎥 “10 Strange New Year’s Facts They Don’t Want You to Know” (A Vault of the

Unseen Original) ⸻ 1. Most of the world skipped 10 days

in 1582. In October of that year, entire countries went to sleep on

the 4th… and woke up on the 15th. Why? Pope Gregory XIII ordered the change

to fix errors in the old Julian calendar. But for those alive at the time, it was as if time

had literally vanished. Imagine going to bed and waking up in the middle of next week.

⸻ 2. Midnight on New Year’s was once feared,

not celebrated. In ancient Europe, midnight wasn’t the beginning of a party — it was