There are exactly 24 hours in every single day. That is precisely 1440 minutes, which comes to 86,400 seconds. You might be wondering why I am saying this? Because, I wanted to expose that indisputable and unchangeable fact, and present you with a thought-provoking question to follow that fact. Alright, you say, so what is the question? Well, some of you might be guessing that the question could be why 24 hours is the amount of time allotted to one day, or how long has the 24 hour day been around. But, in point of fact, my question runs via an entirely different tract. It's this: How different would our world be if our days were three hours longer?

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Not too long ago, there was a young man named Kile. Kile was a normal guy who loved sports, enjoyed getting together with friends, and had a job at the local super-market bagging groceries. One day, his father came up to him and gave him two things. The first thing was a bucket full of gasoline. The second thing was an instruction. The instruction was this, to take his bucket full of gasoline and walk down a certain road for many miles. That was it. A bit odd sounding? Kile thought so. When Kile asked why he was supposed to do this task, his father told him there was car waiting for him at the end of the road. "A car for me?" Kile asked. "Yup, it will be all yours. That's what the bucket of gas is for," replied his father.

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