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Genius Annotation

They Might Be Giants rerecorded “Why Does the Sun Shine?”, a longstanding fan favorite, for inclusion on Here Comes Science, but when they ran it past their fact-checker, they learned that some the science was out of date–not good for something that was going on a children’s album. Rather than remove it outright, their engineer proposed that they write this song, which answers the same questions using more up-to-date science.

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