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Lightning

Daniel talks to Lee Grensci of Pennsylvania State University about lightning facts and fallacies. You really can be killed by lightning jumping through the telephone, he says, but the odds against it are high. If you are outside during a thunderstorm, the best thing to do is to go into a ravine or a valley or to get in a car.

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