Why Clocks Run Clockwise

Simon Whistler explained why clocks run clockwise in another interesting episode of his series Today I Found Out.

Pretty much everyone knows that if you're asked to pass something clockwise around a table, you hand it to the person on your left because that is the same direction that the hands of a clock move. But what you may not know is that this standard direction is a function not only of timekeeping, but the Earth's rotation and the happy accident that much of human civilization evolved in the Northern Hemisphere.

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