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Ball Lightning

For years ball lightning was dismissed as a thing of legend, but it really does exist. It is so rare that only 5% of the world's population has witnessed this phenomenon. In 1843, English physician and electricity researcher Sir William Snow Harris shared that he had discovered ball lightning, but its causes are still debated to this day.

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