3 Facts That Will Make You Feel Better About the World, Part 5 image
We challenge you to stop doom-scrolling, sit back and relax to the tune of these three delightful facts about our beautiful planet. Fact 1 | Need More Time in Your Day? You’re Getting It! It’s true — the Earth’s days are in fact getting longer. Back when the Earth first formed, a day was roughly six hours long. That was 4.6 billion years ago. Then, by 620 million years ago, the days had lengthened to 21.9 hours. Why did this happen? The moon and the tides it creates cause a twisting force that slows the Earth’s rotation incrementally over time. Here’s the bad news though — this is happening at a rate of about 1.7 milliseconds every century. So if you ...
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