• Graphy@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      My dad had to take the citizenship test like 40 years ago and he still remembers the most weirdly-pointless shit no one should ever care about like “Ben Franky didn’t discover electricity but he was the first postmaster general”

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        He didn’t discover electricity, but if I recall correctly, he was the one to coin/define the positive(+)/negative(-) nomenclature, including what each of those actually means (i.e. the charge resulting from rubbing a certain type of fabric over a second material).