Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 08, 2014
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Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! WHEW! The earth is slowing down! The rotation of the earth slows by 0.002 seconds per century, and in 1800 million years' time, Earth days will be 25 hours long. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Hewlett-Packard all started out in home garages. Lion tamers use chairs in their acts because they four points of the chair legs confuse the lion and deter it from a focused attack.
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I feel sorry for the saps who have to rework the clocks if earth is still around then. How do you work in 25 hours? I mean if it was 26 we would get a 13 o clock both ways…but 25 hours would have to rewrite everything about the clock.
Yeah you can say they’ll have 13 o clock but then it will be the only hour not repeated