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TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.

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