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George Figures Out Static Electricity
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George Figures Out Static Electricity
Season 11 Episode 7 | 20m 29s | CC
If you rub two identical balloons together, they both pick up a static charge. This strange and unexpected behavior has been documented in the scientific literature and remains fundamentally unexplained to this day. But when George tries the experiment, he stumbles into something that – to the best of his knowledge – has never been reported in the literature, and is, if possible, even stranger.
