Good morning Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Freiman and I'm Toby How. Today, why you won't find music from Lady Gaga, YouTube Bad Bunny or Taylor Swift on Tik-Tock anymore. Then a highly contentious and emotional hearing just went down between senators and

big tech CEOs on Capitol Hill. It's Thursday February 1st.

We made it! Let's ride.

Yes, Toby, it is February, but it's not just any February.

It's a leap year February. So there's an extra day tacked on at the end. And this isn't just because we feel bad that February gets shortchanged with 28 days. It's necessary to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons because despite what you might

have learned in first grade a year isn't exactly 365 days it takes about 365 and a quarter days

for the earth to complete its orbit around the Sun and we

account for that surplus by making one out of every four years 366 days. If we

didn't have leap years then the seasons would completely swap every 750 years, and the middle of the summer

would be the middle of the winner and vice versa, and the United States would just not be able

to handle Thanksgiving pool parties.

I did the math even further though, so yes, Earth orbits the Sun every 365 in a quarter days, but it's 0.256 days,

but every 1,000 thousand years the year becomes shorter by around 5.5

seconds according to this astronomy form I was on so that means eventually we won't need

a leap here anymore we can start cutting days again so

0.256 days is 22,000 extra seconds and if we're looking at 5.5 seconds

every thousand years in just over 4 million years, we'll be good.

Do not get too comfortable with that 29th day February.

Exactly. We'll just cut it out eventually.

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