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Astrophysicists explain why Earth's day was always 19.5 hours for more than a billion years

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Toronto: The slow and steady lengthening of the Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon has been halted for more than a billion years, according to a group of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto (U of T).

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