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It's absolutely mind-blowing to me that people discovered how to get electric into homes not 200 years ago and now we have really powerful computers in our pockets.
No need for fancy stories about rocks and lightning. And the absolute majority of people have no idea how most common household stuff works, because it just werks and you have running water, heating and cooling, refrigerators, hot showers and what not