New York City has the highest population in the United States. Los Angeles is next most populous city, followed by Chicago. The area code of New York can be dialed within a certain amount of time. It's not allowed to have phone numbers beginning with a one or a zero.
Is your compass actually wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore magnetic fields, why clocks go clockwise, and how phone numbers got their area codes.
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