Alright, strap in, it's time for some atomic time facts
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The longest year to date is 1972, which was a leap year AND the only year in history to have TWO leap seconds. 366 days, 2 seconds
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During 1971, UTC was running 3 millionths of a percent (0.94608 seconds) slower than TAI. Plus, we inserted 0.107758 seconds at the end
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There is a 26-way tie for "longest day". Any day with a leap second is 86401 seconds long. There's another one coming up on 31 December 2016
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