Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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− | "24 hours 4 minutes" because the period of rotation of the Earth is 24 hours MINUS four minutes.
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− | EST = Eastern Standard Time (USA) or England Standard Time (UK); there's no easy way to disambiguate this since it is a common time zone for English speakers in the USA and UK.
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− | "Run clocks backward" a possible reference to the leap second.
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− | "0.9144" because 1 yard = 0.9144 meters
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− | "triple 4 hours after every full moon" = add on an additional 12 hours every full moon, to make the time between full moons exactly 30 "days" (in real life it's 29.5 days). [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206|75.103.23.206]] 21:44, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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