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(CNN) – Surely, by now you’ve seen the latest craze … um, sweeping the internet.

Your friends are likely posting videos and pictures showing how they can make brooms stand up all by themselves.

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  • Jim Curtis, Elyria Oh
  • magic broom!
  • I even stuck out my right hand and commanded ‘UP!’, guess I won’t be playing quidditch today either.
  • I did it at 6:30 6:45 and 7:00 today
  • Tried this in kingsley mi
  • Broom standing
  • Broom challenge
  • It was hilarious though it can be done anytime any day 😆
  • I didn’t believe it until my fiancé did it. My name is Linda Sickora from Brookpark
  • It's standing!
  • Even my little broom stands!
  • This was taken this morning at around 8:20am. They will stand any day of the year lol not just for yesterday’s “myth”
  • I did it! BOOM!
  • Last night before going to work I did the broom challenge left it standing in the kitchen woke up my husband to tell him good bye he walked into the kitchen and said O sh** I think we have a ghost sweeping our in our kitchen. I laughed all Night at work.
  • I thought it was a one time magical thing with the earths gravitational pull ..... come to find I was wrong 😂 you can make your broom stand anytime !
  • Made a funny 🤣
  • Will it really stand
  • Wow
  • My Standing Broom 2-10-2020
  • I tried it.
  • In our kitchen my son did it
  • We three brooms
  • Some witches call this a Park & Ride!
  • Nilla and Phantom
  • This broom is stuck up and doesn't want to sweep. Lol
  • Had to try it
  • It was time to let out the magic. Spoof or not, it was fun flying out of bed to try this!
  • Was sceptical at first, but had to find out.
  • Our cat is freaked out!
  • Our cat is freaked out!
  • Broom Gravity
  • Standing broom
  • Broom standing up on its own!
  • Broom standing up on its own!
  • Broom standing straight up
  • Lacrosse magic stick
  • Broom Challenge!
  • Broom standing in Mandurah Western Australia.
  • 😁 got my broom to stand this morning!!!
  • This is an angled broom that was in the middle f the floor for 5 mins before we put it away.
  • NASA said it could be done so we tried it! Low an behold it CAN be done 🤣
  • The kids loved doing this.
  • Jeri Davis aka "Gramma" in Painesville, Ohio
  • yes this is free standing!
  • I went to the bar and freaked everyone out by standing up the broom there, then found out that it worked for our broom at home too. My broom is STILL standing in the kitchen 8 hours later.
  • We did it at my salon Hairapy with all our “tiny brooms” (tint brushes) too!
  • Even the cat cant figure it out
  • yes this is free standing!
  • Broom challenge
  • Broom standing upright in the kitchen
  • I went to the bar and freaked everyone out by standing up the broom there, then found out that it worked for our broom at home too. My broom is STILL standing in the kitchen 8 hours later.
  • It does work!!
  • We did it at my salon Hairapy with all our “tiny brooms” (tint brushes) too!
  • We did it at my salon Hairapy with all our “tiny brooms” (tint brushes) too!
  • Even the cat cant figure it out
  • Even the wore out shop broom stands by it self.
  • Standing Broom
  • George Martin Broom Challenge
    George Martin Broom Challenge
  • George Martin Broom Challenge
    George Martin Broom Challenge
  • Broom challenge
    Joann Bateman Broom challenge
  • Broom challenge
    Tammy Bateman Broom challenge
  • Myrdis Lindsey Broom Challenge
  • West Park Animal Hospital
  • Peyton broom challenge
    Peyton broom challenge
  • Eddwina Harris broom challenge
  • My broom stood up all by itself..
  • magic broom!
  • Jim Curtis, Elyria Oh

A viral tweet suggests that NASA said Monday was the only day the “standing broom” trick would work, because of the earth’s gravitational pull.

We couldn’t find anything from NASA to support the tweet. But as with many things on the internet, people ran with it.

Fun, right? Right.
But the truth is, you can make a broom stand upright today… and tomorrow and the day after… and the day after that.
It has nothing to do with the earth’s gravitational pull on a certain day. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox (another day of the year when this “magic” supposedly happens).
Instead, it has everything to do with balance.

The center of gravity is low on a broom, and rests directly over the bristles. Which means, if you can get the bristles positioned like a tripod, your broom will stand upright any day of the year.

Here’s a video explaining it all. (By the way, this video is from 2012 because this myth has been around that long, if not longer.)

While we’re sure NASA is bristling at the idea of people getting the science wrong, it still makes for a fun party trick.