8 Popular 'Science Myths' Where The Truth Is Way Cooler

4. Lightning Never Strikes In The Same Place Twice

As far as this one goes, the Empire State Building would definitely beg to differ.

It is unsure as to whether this myth was just made up for the catchy-sounding idiom, but lightning most definitely strikes the same place more than once. If it didn't we'd probably have run out of lightning by now.

With an average of around 2,000 thunderstorms raging across the Earth's surface every day, and the average number of cloud-to-ground strikes hovering at around 20%, lightning strikes the Earth a colossal 432,000 times every day. Even if a huge electrostatic discharge was, for some reason, bothered about which bit it hit, it would probably have run out of space by now.

You can see this from space and the ISS offers a breathtaking view of the Earth being lit up like a Christmas tree by these powerful storms.

In 2003, a NASA study actually found that, not only does lightning definitely strike twice, but mor ethan a third of the time t actually branches out and strikes two places at once.