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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 07:20:56 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Earth's days are currently around 24 hours long, but that wasn't always the case. In fact, days used to be two hours longer (Just think of all the extra time you could have spent at work!). LiveScience explains more, including how the moon siphons away our planet’s kinetic energy: https://flip.it/z6ljwH
#Science #Earth #Moon #Energy #Time
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1. Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer — and that may have triggered one of the biggest evolutionary explosions in history, study suggests
  
  The moon once drifted thousands of miles farther away, and Earth's days got 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds.

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