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Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves, unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic waves known as plasma waves. These plasma waves, like the roaring ocean surf, create a rhythmic cacophony that — with the right tools — we can hear across space.

p0pO TIL that due to the country’s ultra low fertility rate, South Koreans are projected to go extinct by the year 2750.
D1Omr TIL In 1990, Rick James sued MC Hammer for copyright when Hammer sampled his song “Super Freak” in Hammer’s hit “Can’t Touch This” without permission. They agreed to settle out of court and Hammer credited James as a co-composer, James won his first and only Grammy from “Can’t Touch This”.
dw4d TIL that stores use the ‘Goldilocks pricing’ technique where one item is too expensive, one too cheap and the middle just right, to influence the buyer. Also Prestige or Premium pricing is when one item is given a huge prize tag simply because people will think it’s better and buy it.
N7DB8 TIL that Marie Curie was the first ever woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only one to win two of them.
9wkap TIL about Bicameral Mentality, a hypothesis which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys.