The sun's path through the sky is sort of in the me in between somewhere. As you hike north the arc the sun takes in the sky goes farther and farther south. In the northern hemisphere if you were ever facing the sun you will never be facing north. Ever.
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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Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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