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Bizarre Fact:
A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
Quick Explanation:
A typical lightning strike discharges about a billion joules of energy, a massive burst of power.
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The Full Story:
The raw power of nature is difficult to comprehend, but breakfast provides a good scale. A typical bolt of **lightning** carries a current of about 30,000 amps and delivers roughly **one billion joules** of energy in a fraction of a second.
To put that in perspective, a standard toaster uses about 80,000 joules to toast a slice of bread. If you could capture and perfectly distribute the energy from a single strike, you could instantly toast **100,000 slices of bread**. The problem, of course, is that the energy is delivered in microseconds, which would likely vaporize the bread (and the toaster) rather than gently browning it.
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