Something
To Help Cheer You Down
August 19, 2022
On
June 29, 2022, my favorite planet, and hopefully yours – Earth – broke the record for the shortest
day ever recorded since the invention of the Atomic Clock. Interesting? Not so
much interesting as ominous.
Why
is that, you ask?
If
you think about an ice skater spinning.
She spins faster and faster as her arms are brought closer to the torso.
The theory is, as the we lose the mass of ice at the poles (in our lifetime,
the Earth has lost ice equivalent to the size of the United States – how ironic
– six feet thick). The weight of that lost ice is changing the balance of the
Earth around its axis.
Let’s
hope this doesn’t make us all dizzy...or something.
Just thought you might like to know.
This has been your Paying Attention™ (Not So) Fun Fact
For The Day.
Bonus (Not So) Fun Fact For The Day:
Groucho Marx died on this day in 1986.
THE ONE THE ONLY GROUCHO
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