TIL the mass of water stored behind Three Gorges Dam in China is so large it has increased the total length of the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds and made the Earth slightly more round in the middle and flat on the poles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
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