A bolt can be an inch wide and ninety miles long.
More people are hit while fishing than any other outdoor activity.
The heat can cause a sudden expansion of sap––or blood––exploding a tree, or blood vessels.
New York’s Empire State Building is struck twenty-five to one-hundred times per year.
There was an orthopedic surgeon in Albany, who was struck in a phone booth in the mid-nineties. He had just finished a call to his mother. His heart stopped. He was revived but changed. He no longer had interest in medicine. What he did have was a sudden urge to play the piano, along with visions of musical notations. Although he had no prior musical experience, he became a classical musician, began touring.
How? Some of the remaining doctors speculated that the neurons were rewired, providing access to areas of the brain that were previously inaccessible.
Many cultures saw it as the choice weapon of divinities, but the Navajo had a different take. They considered it a healing power, a wink in Thunderbird’s eye.
