| Published: | 11/7/2012 |
| Number: | 1080 |
| Link: | http://xkcd.com/1080/large/ |

I recently learned something that solved a mystery that had bugged me since childhood--why, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google "stopped clock illusion".
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