Eli5 on why do planets spin?

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Eli5 on why do planets spin?

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I remember learning this as a kid at science world I think, hopefully I remember it right.

There’s a big circular funnel ,the bottom of the funnel represents a massive object that is bending space. ( So think of space as like a sheet of rubber and the sun is a big heavy ball that sinks it down forming a funnel).

Now when you put an object like a ball into the funnel, it doesn’t take a beeline to the center of the funnel,it starts to spin around the edges getting closer and closer to the center of the funnel and will take quite awhile to reach the center.

This is basically how gravity and orbit works but I don’t actually know why the object takes a circular spiraling path instead of just going straight towards the center.