The longest lightning bolt ever recorded stretched 768 km across the southern US in 2020.

Fireflies can synchronize their flashing across entire forests — a phenomenon studied by chaos mathematicians.

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Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall at 979 meters.

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Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.

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Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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The largest man-made hole in the world is the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah — 4 km wide and 1.2 km deep.

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Volcanic lightning is caused by static electricity from ash particles colliding during eruption.

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Bioluminescent forests — trees glowing in the dark — have been filmed in Brazil using extremely sensitive cameras.

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The strangler fig germinates in the canopy and sends roots down — eventually enveloping and killing the host tree.

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