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Giraffes attract lightning more.
Giraffes are around thirty times more likely to be killed by lightning than people, a statistic that sounds exaggerated until the numbers are scaled properly. Between 1996 and 2010 there were only five well documented fatal lightning strikes involving giraffes, which seems negligible until you account for the size of the population. During that period there were roughly 140,000 giraffes worldwide, which works out to about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. When compared to the equivalent fatality rate in humans, that figure is roughly thirty times higher. Being the tallest object on the savannah has advantages, but none of them apply during a thunderstorm.
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