In the era of the smartphone, gone is the scene in heist movies where people gather in a circle and say what? All right. Let's synchronize our watch. And so anyone in modern times say, why would you do that? Aren't they already synchronized with GPS? So that is such an antiquated prehistoric moment in a heist movie. That it's almost quaint.
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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