An Astrophysicist Tweeted An Extraordinary Burj Khalifa Ramadan Fact And It WILL Blow Your Mind

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The Burj Khalifa is many amazing feats in one, but this extraordinary Ramadan fact is blowing people’s minds.

A Twitter user, Neil deGrasse, an astrophysicist from New York City with over 13 mill followers on the platform noted that for Burj Khalifa dwellers (imagine living in the Burj K?!) fasting hours vary, depending how high up in the building you actually live.

According to deGrasse, “the sun sets four minutes later at the top than at the bottom.” Huh!

26k people have liked the tweet is less than a day

“During Ramadan, daytime fasting for Muslims ends at sunset. But for Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, the Sun sets four minutes later at the top than at the bottom. High-floor dwellers see beyond the ground-level horizon, farther along Earth’s curvature.”

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