First day of fall.

Supposedly the only two days/year you can do this. Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. No tricks, just managed to get it to stand on its end.

No way. This isn't supposed to work. Did you scuff up the base a little? I've tried a few times in the past with no success.

True! The equinoxes are two days of the year that an egg can stand on its end! That said, and egg can also be made to stand on its end the remaining 363 days.There nothing about an equinox that affects gravity levels or angular momentum of the Earth or anything on it. The orbit is not a perfect circle, but the change is too gradual to allow something as simple as this to occur only two days of the year.

Nope, just a little patience is all it took.

The other secret bar trick part is a little bit of salt on the table (or bar).

Yep, but no trickery in my photo.