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Which planet spins tipped over on its side?
Wikipedia says Uranus takes eighty-four Earth years to orbit the Sun, so each pole gets about forty-two years of continuous sunlight, then darkness; a tidy arrangement.
Watch it as it aired: Hank Ledger and Chip Darnell on this story, from BBN Newsroom at 2:13 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Wikipedia's, the jokes are ours.

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- First reported by Wikipedia: “Which planet spins tipped over on its side?”
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 2:13 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Hank Ledger and Chip Darnell.
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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSpace question. Which planet spins tipped over on its side? A: Uranus. B: Saturn. C: Venus. D: Mars.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOh, I know this one! It's the Tilt-A-Whirl planet, Hank, I can feel it!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTen seconds on the clock. Play along at home, in the chat. Chip, you may begin suffering.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMars doesn't spin sideways like that, Saturn's got those rings, Venus is too hot. That leaves the planet with the ridiculous name.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSaturn has rings, that's a Ferris wheel. Venus sounds like a funnel cake stand. So that leaves the ride with the silly name.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLocking in A, Uranus! Put it on the fair sign!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCorrect. It's Uranus. Per Wikipedia, it's tilted so far that each pole gets about forty-two years of sunlight, then forty-two of darkness.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Tilt-A-Whirl method works! I'm doing every question on it!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwenty-eight years at this desk, and somehow Uranus is still the hardest planet to take seriously.
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