Oh my God! Yo, no strings, nothing! What? So NASA said today is the day, the only day that your broom can stand up on its own, and watch this. Okay so NASA said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull…I didn’t believe it at first but OMG! □□□□□ /M0HCeemyGtĪlright y'all. The tweet received over 51,500 retweets and 217,100 likes in one day (shown below), with the video accumulating over 5.4 million views. ![]() In the tweet, a video of performing the trick was attached. On February 10th, 2020, Twitter user tweeted that on that day brooms could stand upright on their own "because of the gravitational pull," attributing the claim to NASA. On February 8th, 2020, Time24 News reported on the trend, with no such claims made by NASA being discovered. In early February 2020, the false belief regained popularity on social media for example, on February 7th, Instagram user saquinhodelixo posted several photographs of brooms standing upright, claiming that NASA said that on that day the rotation of the Earth would make the brooms stand on its own. In March 2020, CNN aired a news segment about the trend, also debunking it (shown below). In February 2012, claimes that the approach of the equinox allowed brooms to stand upright gained prominence on social media. ![]() ![]() On March 17th, 1999, Snopes posted an article "Egg Balancing on the Equinox" in which it debunked the false belief that eggs and brooms can only be balanced on their ends on vernal and autumnal equinoxes.
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