eli5 how small motors and rotating things work? Where does the rotating start?

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Take something like a drill.

I understand its electric, I understand that in some way the electricity makes sothing move and then that movement is turned into spinning through gears and engineering magic.

But where does the initial movement come from? All i can picture is something is spinning or rotating because something else is rotating. But it has to start somewhere right?

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Magnets.
Angry pixies move along copper wire inside motor, there is a magnetic field around the copper wire when power runs through.

Run the cooper correct way around a magnet(or magnetized rotor) you get movement, magnets attracting and repelling eachother

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