The Burj Khalifa is so tall the sun appears to set several minutes later on the top floor. This even affects fasting in Ramadan.

The Burj Khalifa is so tall the sun appears to set several minutes later on the top floor. This even affects fasting in Ramadan.

The Burj Khalifa is 2,716.5 feet high and 160 stories. It is the tallest building in the world and has the longest elevator in the world. It has the highest “occupied floor” of any building. It has several residences as well as a hotel and is located in Dubai.  Interestingly, it is so tall that people at the top of the tower see the sunrise a full two minutes after those on the ground see it. 

Because of their different angle from the earth, the son appears to go down just slightly later. To a lot of people this might seem an insignificant difference, but to Muslims fasting for Ramadan, it does matter. Clerics of Muslim law have decided that Muslims living up higher do have to fast for two minutes longer. 

They must fast from dawn to dusk, no matter if dusk comes slightly later. And, regardless of who you are, it would be fun to see the sunset twice in an evening. All you would have to do is see it first on the ground, and then hurry up in the elevator to the top floor to see it all over again! 

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The same baby turtles in 1976's Rocky - Cuff and Link - appear fully grown in its sequel 30 years later, Rocky Balboa.

The same baby turtles in 1976's Rocky - Cuff and Link - appear fully grown in its sequel 30 years later, Rocky Balboa.

So far, there are six Rocky movies all written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky Balboa was the last of the six films and takes place thirty years after the original Rocky, which makes it take place around 2005 or 2006. 

In the first film, Rocky is 30 years old, making him born in 1945. In the final film, Rocky’s age is never specifically given, but he is meant to be around 60 years old.

The turtles, Cuff and Link, and were introduced in Rocky, where they were played by the same two actual turtles that play them in Rocky Balboa. Their significance to the Rocky mythos is that they formed the basis of the first bad joke which Rocky tells Adrian in Rocky. 

They were their own special addition to the films. In the last film, Rocky only agrees to fight to prove something to himself and because he felt he had one last fight in him. The Rocky franchise is now officially over. 

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