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UK doctors have warned of the danger of lightning strikes when using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather.
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"If you're struck by lightning on its own it will flash over your body but if you're holding a phone it will internalise and cause much worse injuries"

• There are, on average, about 1,800 thunderstorms in progress at any one time around the world with 100 lightning strikes every second.
• A lightning bolt travels at about 14,000mph and heats up the air around it to 30,000°C - five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
• The chance of being hit by lightning is about one in three million.

• Number of VOLTS in a lightning flash: 1 Billion
• Number of AMPS in a lighting flash: between 10,000 and 200,000
• The average lightning flash would light a 100 watt light bulb for 3 months.

Originally posted by Rincewind about Twoflower, the disc's first tourist:

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting "All gods are bastards"