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Why didn Ben Franklin get electrocuted when he tied a metal key to a kite string and flew the kite in a thunderstorm?

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Why didn Ben Franklin get electrocuted when he tied a metal key to a kite string and flew the kite in a thunderstorm?

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Ben Franklin’s famous key did give off an electric spark. But lucky for Franklin, the kite was just drawing small electrical charges from the air. If the kite had actually been struck by lightning, Franklin would have been killed!