Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 per…

Bill Bryson
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Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. ✨ Bill Bryson (2014). A Short History of Nearly Everything, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc
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