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A Chinese chooses red underwear displayed in a shop on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Shanghai on February 3, 2011 (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Wearing red undies for Lunar New Year

Joy Saha
Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Ranger Dave Gustafson holds Flatiron Freddy, a stuffed yellow-bellied marmot, during the annual Groundhog Day Celebration at Chautauqua Park in Boulder on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)

How Groundhog Day is honored elsewhere

Nardos Haile
Sets of colorful leather gloves (Getty Images/Svetlanais)

10 quirky leap year traditions

Joy Saha
Guests attend the media day for Southern California's new immersive trick-or-treating experience "Cemetery Lane" on October 28, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

How old is too old to trick-or-treat?

Joy Saha
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Friday 13th on a calendar (Getty Images/Studio-Annika)

13 facts about Friday the 13th

Nardos Haile
Grapes, Pomegranates and Oranges (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

5 foods traditionally eaten on New Year

Joy Saha
Prince Albert's Angus polled ox, 1844. Exhibit at the Smithfield Club Christmas Cattle Show in London (The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions

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Prachi Gupta
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