Time Facts
Surprising facts and anecdotes about time. Check out our fun time facts for kids!
- Dinosaurs had to fit a full day’s work into just 23 hours.
- Einstein showed that gravity makes time run more slowly. Time flies faster in the sky.
- Daylight Saving Time began as a joke by Benjamin Franklin, who proposed waking people earlier on bright summer mornings.
Hourglasses are used for time measurement, from minutes to hours, and even a year, and when the top bulb is empty, time is up.
- The length of a day is actually increasing as time passes.
- The leap year is generally credited to Julius Caesar.
- The seven day week started out in Mesopotamia.
- One second used to be defined as 1/86,400 the length of a day.
- Obelisks were special because they used moving shadows to tell about the time.
- The world’s most accurate clock, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado.
- Hourglasses’ are also known as ‘sandglasses’, ‘sand timers’, ‘egg timers’, ‘sand watches’ and ‘sand clocks’.
- People forever live in the past. According to this theory, every person is living at least 80 milliseconds in the past.
- Everyone experiences time differently.
