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TIL Antennas cannot uniformly transmit in all directions because of the ‘Hairy Ball Theorem’

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YpZwA TIL of Fan Death, a popular superstition in South Korea believing that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan can cause death. Despite no evidence of death, it is believed the South Korean government created this myth to lessen energy consumption during the 1970 energy crisis
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