Lightning

Lightning moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet.

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The Empire State Building gets hit by lightning about 23 times per year.

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Lightning victims do not carry an electric charge; the human body does not store electricity.

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The average width of lightning is about 2–3 cm. The average length is about 2–3 miles.

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You're safe in a car during a lightning storm, but only if you are not touching any metal parts of the car.

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Two brothers pose for a photo in Sequoia National Park moments before getting struck by lightning in August 1975.

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There is a place in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 times per hour, 160 nights a year.

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It is estimated that the Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second.

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And it's deadlier than normal (AKA negative) lightning.

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Lightning kills 51 people on average in the United States each year.

Lightning Facts

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In florida on average, lightning kills 10 and injures 40 people per year.

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No place outside is safe from lightning.

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Lightning moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet.

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Lightning strikes the United states 20 million times per year.

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Lightning comes up from the earth-as well as down from the cloud-from high vertical features such as chimneys and trees.

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Between 2002 and 2005, lightning caused an annual average of $213 million in property damage.

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The longest known lightning bolt could have reached from Brussels to London.

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The Empire State Building gets hit by lightning about 23 times per year.

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In the 18th century Paris, it was fashionable to wear hats and umbrellas with lightning rods attached.

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African bongos eat burned wood after lightning storms.

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You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than find in-person voter fraud.

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A lightning bolt carries X-ray radiation.

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