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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn't come for free!

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

Those people were condemned as witches. Best not to think about it.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a bit of electricity in our nervous systems too, yes?

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's electricity in the brain, for example.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's electricity in the air when I'm with you

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used electric fish for medical treatments.

Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity (600 BC) by rubbing amber and observing its ability to attract light objects.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That's not consumption, that's agony.