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  • 2017-05-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Physicist Warns That Fidget Spinners Could Affect Earth's Center of Gravity? (en)
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  • On 10 May 2017, the Focus Times web site published an article positing that a renowned physicist had warned that the widespread use of stress-relieving toys known as 'fidget spinners' could be having a deleterious and potentially destructive effect on the Earth's rotation and orbit: There was no truth to this report. Focus Times has been making something of a cottage industry out of fidget spinner-related fake news, additionally publishing multiple and nearly identical fabricated stories about schoolteachers who each lost an eye from malfunctioning spinners, and men who were reportedly hospitalized after each experienced one of the popular toys becoming lodged in his anus. The laws of physics being what they are, no amount of human fidget-spinning would have any appreciable effect on the Earth's center of gravity, rotation, or orbit. (en)
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