fun fact: no one really knows why, exactly, rubbing two materials together can cause a buildup of electric charge
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everyone knows you can do it, who hasn't rubbed a balloon against their hair or something, and it was the earliest method known of generating electricity--it's how van de Graaf generators work

but no one's really figured out *how* it works
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(we do have some pretty good theories though)
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now please enjoy this picture of a probably very confused cat, from the wikipedia page on triboelectricity
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