Shocking Facts

Check out these wild facts about electricity:

• If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! However, this is nothing to worry about, unless you have a LOT of carpeting.
• Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education.
• Electrocution is one of the top five causes of workplace deaths.
• Birds on power lines do not get shocked because they are not touching the ground or any other grounded object. If you or the metal ladder or pole you are holding touch the same line, you will be electricity's instant path to the ground
• In the past decade scientists developed the laser, an electronic appliance that emits a beam of light so powerful that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2,000 yards away, yet so precise that doctors can use it to perform delicate operations on the human eyeball, provided they remember too change the power setting from "VAPORIZE BULLDOZER" to "DELICATE."
• During Lance Armstrong’s win in the Tour De France in 2001, over the 20 stages and 2,150 miles of bicycle racing Lance produced 97,175,983 total Watts of power. That is enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the entire state of California for just over 3 seconds!