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Times Square ball isn't the only thing being ceremonially dropped tonight
December 31, 2012
Times Square, eat your heart out.
Did you know that the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania rings in the new year by dropping a giant marshmallow Peep?
(Image: Matt Smith/Express-Times)
Or that a 350-pound Moon Pie ushers in the new year in Mobile, Alabama?
Check out this list from Mental Floss for 34 other bizarre things that will be ceremonially dropped tonight at midnight.
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