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We Finally Know What Creates Static Electricity, After Thousands of Years (www.sciencealert.com)

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We finally have an answer: The beginning and the end of the sliding motion that produces static electricity experience different forces – resulting in a charge differential between the front and the back that results in the crackle of static electricity.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Fun hiccup fact: the default human state is hiccups, and there's a small part of the brain that normally suppresses them. There have been rare cases where it'a damaged and someone just... never stops hiccupping. A fate worse than death imo.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

If there was ever an argument against intelligent design, it's shit like this.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

See also the giraffe nerve that takes a 15 foot detour because it didn't evolve to go on the other side of their hearts. It's theorized to have travelled even further in dinosaurs: