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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This is horrifying to me for some reason