{

{

"Did you know that " {

{ "the " {"Fall "|"Winter "} "equinox " } |

{ "leap " {"day "|"year "} } |

"Easter " | "Shark Week " | "Toyota Truck Month " |

{ "the " { "Harvest"|"Super"|"Blood" } " Moon " } |

{ "daylight " {"saving" | "savings"} " time " } |

{ "the " {"earliest" | "latest"} " " {"sunrise" | "sunset"} " "}

}

}

{

{"happens " {"earlier "|"later "|"at the wrong time "} "every year "} |

{"might " {"not happen"|"happen twice"} " this year "} |

{ "drifts out of sync with the " {

"atomic clock in Colorado" | "Sun" | "Moon" | "Zodiac" |

{

{"Gregorian" | "Mayan" | "Lunar" | "iPhone"} " Calendar"

}

} " "

}

}

"because of "

{

{"time zone legislation in " {"Russi" | "Indian" | "Arizon"} "a" } |

"a decree by The Pope in the 1500s" |

"magnetic field reversal" |

{

"an arbitrary decision by "

{"Benjamin Franklin" | "Isaac Newton" | "FDR"}

} |

{

"the "

{

"precession" |

"libration" |

"nutation" |

"libation" |

"eccentricity" |

"obliquity"

}

" of the "

{

"Moon" | "Sun" |

"Earth's axis" |

"equator" | "prime meridian" |

{ {"International Date" | "Mason-Dixon"} "Line" }

}

}

}

"? Apparently "

{

"it causes a predictable increase in car accidents." |

"that's why we have leap seconds." |

"scientists are really worried." |

"it's getting worse and no one knows why." |

{

"it was even more extreme during the "

{ "Bronze Age" | "Ice Age" | "Cretaceous" | "1990s"}

"."

} |

{

"there's a proposal to fix it, but it "

{

"will never happen" |

"actually makes things worse" |

"is stalled in Congress" |

"might be unconstitutional"

}

"."

}

}

" While it may seem like trivia, it "

{

"causes huge headaches for software developers" |

"is taken advantage of by high speed traders" |

"triggered the 2003 Northeast Blackout" |

"has to be corrected for by GPS satellites" |

"is now recognized as a major cause of World War I"

}

"."

}