🪐 Space

Venus takes longer to spin once on its axis than to travel around the Sun.

One spin takes about 243 Earth days, while one orbit takes about 225. It also spins backwards compared with most planets, so on Venus the Sun rises in the west.

Source: Wikipedia: Venus

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