Most of us wish we had more than 24 hours in a day to get everything done and actually breathe. What if each day gave us more than double that time? If it wasn’t for a phenomenon that put the lengthening of Earth’s days on pause billions of years ago, that would have probably happened.
Earth has not always had 24-hour days. There were fewer than 10 hours in a day when the Moon first came into being around 4.5 billion years ago, but they have grown longer as lunar tidal forces gradually slowed Earth’s rotation. But there
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