If you ve already tried this rest assured that you re not alone.
Brooms standing up alone eclipse.
Take any flat bottomed broom it can be angled or straight with relatively stiff bristles and stand it up so that the bottom is flat on.
It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day.
You just have to know the trick.
The same brooms standing on end today will stand on end a week from now a month from now or four months from now regardless of the positioning of the planets.
Yesterday a tweet quickly went viral claiming that nasa declared february 10 the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull cue a plethora of twitter users pulling off magic tricks in the middle of their kitchens by making a broom stand up by itself.
This isn t the first time claims have spread online that nasa said brooms can stand up on their own on the spring or vernal equinox.
It s just a matter of fanning out the bristles like a tripod and.
Okay so nasa said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull.