22 Things You Never Knew About New Year's

The Times Square Celebration

• 60,000: The most wishes the Times Square Alliance has received in a given year. The wishes, written on colorful scraps of paper, rain down on the celebration with about 1 ton of confetti. (Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment)
  
  
• $2,950: The cost per person to get a direct view of the ball drop at the Marriott Marquis masquerade ball. They're expecting 500 guests.
  
  
• 1 million: The number of revelers who come to Times Square to ring in the New Year.
  
  
• 40: The years that Dick Clark has led TV viewers across the world into the next year.
  
  
• 127 decibels: The sound of a vuvuzela (fireworks top out at 150 decibels—you can expect both in Times Square).