What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?

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A broken clock is right twice a day, but a clock running backwards is right four times a day.
- A broken clock is right twice a day, but a running clock is probably never right.
  
  At this point you get into a philosophical discussion about what "right" really means
  
  Two wrong don’t make a right, but three left turns do.
  
  Or if the "present" actually exists
  
  🎵 Time is an illusion that helps things make sense, so we're always living in the present tense... 🎶
  
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  Man, that song hits me right in the feels. Every time.
  
  I'm really picky when it comes to clocks. They need to be ±1 minute. If they aren't it really starts to bother me.
  
  time dilation ftw!
  
  A broken clock may occasionally be right but it's regularly useless
  
  If you're lucky, a clock that's slightly too fast or too slow will be right once
  
  My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it
  *It must be correct as it's very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past
- Depends how fast is going backwards
  
  Also depends how the other clock is broken, if we're this picky about it.
  
  That's why the correct term is 'a stopped clock' not a broken one.
  
  Yeah a broken LED clock isn't often right!
- This only works with 1-dimensional time though.
  
  As opposed to what?
  
  2 dimensional time?
  
  I really wanna know how that clock works
  
  Luckily we don't build clocks for n-dimensional time
- A clock running backwards turns left and is therefor never right.
  
  It's right the 4 times the hands overlap at 12 and 6.

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