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September 16, 2005

Woolen shirt + nylon jacket = 40,000 volts – Yahoo! News

Power-dressing Aussie leaves trail of destruction – Yahoo! News

“SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
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Good thing nobody decided to shake his hand.

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