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On June 29, 2022 our planet set a new record for its shortest day. getty As reported by TimeAndDate.com, on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 our planet set a new fastest record—as far as scientists can tell—for completing one rotation. It did so in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. Hang on! Earth takes exactly 24 …

THE shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world takes just 90 seconds from take off to landing. If you want to try it for yourself, you’re in luck – as it is in the UK. 4 The Loganair flight takes just 90 seconds from take-off to landingCredit: Alamy The flight runs between the islands of …

Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busaid got to be sultan for a day. A little more than that, actually—42 hours—give or take 10 crucial minutes. It was August 1896 in Zanzibar, the island off the East African coast that is now part of Tanzania, and Khalid’s cousin, Sultan Hamad, had died suddenly. Rumors spread that he …