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.

  • @Feathercrown
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    142 months 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.

      • @Feathercrown
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        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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    • @bradboimler
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      62 months ago

      This is horrifying to me for some reason