100 Useless Time Facts for Sleep

Useless Facts for Sleep · Mar 21, 2026 · 1h

Tonight’s gift is 100 wonderfully unnecessary facts about calendars, clocks, leap years, and the strange little rules holding time together. In this episode, we drift through the odd architecture of time itself, from months with ancient naming problems and years that needed repairs to time zones that bend, clocks that had to be negotiated, and days that are not quite what they seem. Each fact begins with something familiar, like a weekday, a leap year, or a time zone, and then turns gently strange in the most relaxing possible way. The facts arrive in ten calm groups of ten, beginning with…