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TIL about Roy Cleveland Sullivan also called Human lightning Rod ,a park ranger(at Virginia) who was hit by lightning SEVEN times and he survived ALL of them.The odds of getting hit by lightning is 1 out of 13,500.He commited suicide at the age of 71 by gunshot.

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