stackyFACTSCartography is an impermanent art because the planet refuses to stay still. Due to microscopic wobbles in Earth’s axial tilt, the imaginary line marking the northernmost point of direct sunlight shifts about fifty feet a year. Any historic monuments built to denote it are now completely obsolete.
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