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[โ€“] Rooskie91@discuss.online 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The sharks thing actually leads to another fun fact:

Sharks are older than some of the north star, as the noth star is actually a binary star system next to a solo star. I forget what part it's actually older than, so here's the source.

https://youtu.be/-YU8Vt9VpbE

[โ€“] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

And just to be clear, Polaris is not actually the "North Star" all the time. North Stardom rotates around on a 26,000 year period, as the earth precesses. That's crazy lightning fast spinning on the time scales we're taking about.