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Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: We're gonna need a bigger board

"Static shocks and ones administered from a battery certainly existed at the same time as writing, since they all existed in Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian times."

But only in fairly dry countries. I imagine the first static shock in the UK was within the last 200 years.

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