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Did you know that while you are eating delicious pancakes for breakfast, a kid on the other side of the planet in Australia is fast asleep in the pitch dark? Or that right now, even while you are sitting totally still, you are actually hurtling through space at over sixty-seven thousand miles per hour? It is true! Our massive planet Earth is like a giant, spinning spaceship! In this mind-blowing episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore exactly why we have day and night. You will discover how the Earth acts like a leaning top facing a giant flashlight, and visit a wild town in Norway where the sun stays up in the sky for four whole months straight! Plus, find out how a Canadian engineer named Sir Sandford Fleming missed his train in 1876 and decided to slice the entire world into twenty-four time zones just to fix the crazy schedules! Get ready to learn wacky facts about astronauts seeing sixteen sunsets a day and why France has more time zones than any other country. Strap into your chairs and get ready to spin!
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