Remember back when everyone was talking about an ancient Mayan prediction that the world would end on December 21, 2012? Obviously, the world did not come to an end. Look, here we are in the year of 2020, which kind of feels like the end of the world. However, we may not be in the year 2020... at least, not yet.
A scientist in Knoxville, Tennessee named Paolo Tagalougin who has now deleted his Twitter redid the calculations. He says that the REAL date of the Mayan apocalypse is this upcoming Sunday, which happens to be Father's Day. Sorry, Dads. Back when the Mayans made their prediction, Paolo believes they were using the Julian calendar, which was the main calendar of the time. The world switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, and several days were lost. "Following the Julian calendar, we are technically in 2012." If that's right, the date that they believed was "December 21, 2012" is June 21, 2020. Because the only thing missing from 2020 is the Mayan apocalypse.
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