100 Useless Time Facts for Sleep

Useless Facts for Sleep · Apr 20, 2026 · 2h 26m

Tonight, we drift through one hundred wonderfully useless facts about clocks, calendars, leap years, missing days, and the quietly strange ways humans have tried to hold on to time. This episode moves gently through the whole soft machinery of timekeeping, from sundials and leap seconds to skipped dates, weekday names, clock faces, time zones, and the little repairs humans keep making so days and seasons stay roughly where they belong. The facts begin with the most satisfying “wait, really?” time curiosities, then gradually become slower, softer, and more meditative as the episode goes on. It…