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The odds of getting struck by lightning in any given year are about 1 in 300,000. And although roughly 90% of those struck survive, the electrical discharge scars some of them with a tattoo-like mark, known as the Lichtenberg figure. But that’s not all. A lightning bolt can heat the surrounding air to 27,760 degrees Celsius – which is five times hotter than the sun – and can contain up to 1 billion volts of electricity.
The odds of getting struck by lightning in any given year are about 1 in 300,000
And although roughly 90% of those struck survive, the electrical discharge scars some of them with a tattoo-like mark
It is known as the Lichtenberg figure
A lightning bolt can heat the surrounding air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (27,760 degrees Celsius)
This is five times hotter than the sun
A cloud-to-ground strike cal also contain up to 1 billion volts of electricity
When this amount of energy enters your body, it short-circuits the small electrical signals that run the heart, lungs, and nervous system
This can lead to cardiac arrest, seizures, brain injury, spinal cord damage, and amnesia
The blistering heat, light, and electricity can also damage your eyes
For example, it can bore holes in your retina and cause cataracts (cloudings of the lenses)
Unfortunately for men, lightning can also induce impotence and decrease libido in general
The Lichtenberg figures are the results of the lightning moving toward the surface of the body
When it forces the red blood cells out of your capillaries
A man called Winston Kemp was struck by lightning back in 2011
Ironically, the man is an electrician
“I went outside to save my pumpkins. After that, I was going back inside”
“I just know it struck in our neighbor’s backyard, and it was bright and loud. I didn’t feel anything”
“I just came back inside like nothing was wrong. Umm…my arm was sore. <…> [It was] maybe an hour before I saw the marks”
“A few hours after it happened it really started to bother me. The next day it was bad. The blisters started forming; they were really big” They kept on growing for a week!
Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year
And they can also engrave fields of grass
So golf courses can really highlight these Lichtenberg figures
Which are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg who originally discovered and studied them
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