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FACTS ABOUT LIGHTNING. A whimsical bolt of lightning singed the hair of a British Imperial Airways pilot as his plane winged over the Alps. Weather experts took due note of his story, and added a few lines to their collection on Freak Streaks of Lightning, comments the “New York Times.” Lightning has stripped the clothes from a man and left him naked and unharmed. It has ripped the shoes from a woman and laid them down, side by side, without disturbing the laces. Scientists have records of all these things, but they still mutter in their beards when stories crop up about how lightning left perfect prints of ferns and leaves on the chest of the man it hit. Nevertheless, the bolts continue surprising. A Baltimore woman wore a “lightning hair-do” for several days after a bolt flashed, into her bedroom and turned the bobby pins on her head into curling irons.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4232, 17 January 1940, Page 8
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154QUEER QUIPS Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4232, 17 January 1940, Page 8
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