People across the world have been making, and breaking, New Year’s resolutions for an estimated 4,000 years.
We can thank the Babylonians for starting that tradition.
The practice is believed to have first caught on among the ancient Babylonians, who made promises to earn the favor of the gods and start the year off on the right foot, according to the History channel website, http://www.history.com.
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