Can grapes bring you luck? Spaniards believe so, and at midnight on New Year's Eve all across the country it's a race to gobble 12 grapes all before the first minute of the year passes.

Across the globe, denizens are gearing up to celebrate the arrival of 2025. In some parts of the world, a new year also means drawing on old practices to symbolically usher in wealth and good luck.

This is their way of ringing in the New Year hoping to get into a relationship this year. Yes, eating 12 grapes might just do the trick. Well, TikTok may have added its own personal twist to this ...

Uvas de la suerte, or the 12 lucky grapes, may have started in the 1880s, when Madrid's "bourgeoisie" put their own spin on the "French custom of drinking Champagne and eating grapes on New Year's ...