Now that we’ve gotten some of the formalities out of the way, it’s time to dive into the meat and potatoes of said facts!

• Electricity Was Not An Invention – No, humans aren’t able to invent a raw power so, well, powerful. Electricity was discovered, more accurately, since electricity has already existed in nature long before we were able to harness its power!
• Electricity Is In You – Not only is electricity found in nature (we are all thinking of lightning right now), but it’s also keeping you alive. Electricity plays a crucial role in making sure your heart beats, which is fairly important as bodily processes go. More specifically, electricity causes the heart’s muscle cells to contract, which in turn makes your heart beat.
• Benjamin Franklin Gets More Credit Than He’s Due – Sure, Benjamin Franklin was very helpful in terms of his work which established a relationship between lightning and electricity, but he is hardly the individual who “discovered” electricity. It was the ancient Greeks, around 600 B.C.E, who unearthed that when fur and amber are rubbed together, they are attracted to one another. Does anyone know what that phenomenon is called? Bueller? Static electricity!
• Let’s Talk About Lightning – Lightning is incredible, but also pretty terrifying. It’s remarkably powerful, registering up to 3 million volts! It’s also remarkably fast as well, moving around 130,00 mph! As you can probably imagine, it’s remarkably hot as well, reaching temperatures as high as 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s why we stay clear of holding up metal poles in open fields during thunderstorms here at ElectricMasters! (And you should too).
• The Kingdom Animalia & Electricity – The animal kingdom has harnessed the power of electricity in numerous ways. The most commonly-thought-of example would probably be the electric eel, which has three organs utilized to create a current. The current is usually used to stun prey while the eel is hunting, but it can also be used to emit a high voltage current to dissuade predators from thinking they’ve found their next meal. So, whether they are the hunters or the hunted, electricity is key to the electric eel’s survival!
• Daylight Savings & Energy Conservation? – Here’s a little-known electricity fact for you: daylight savings time was a measure proposed during World War I as a means to save electricity, with the theory being that people would use less energy to light their homes if we catered our clocks to the sun’s schedule, as it were. However, a 1970s study found that it only made about 1 percent of a difference. While 1 percent is nothing to turn your nose up at, we aren’t sure it’s worth the trouble anymore. We think Arizona’s abstaining from the daylight saving’s program altogether is the right kind of idea. . . not that anyone asked us. . .
• Electricians Can’t Be Color-Blind – Our final fact has less to do with electricity as a whole and more to do with electricians! Because all single phase electrical wires were red, black, and green up until the 1970s, electricians needed to be able to differentiate between the three. Hence, you could not become an electrician if you were color-blind, sad as it is, due to the dangerous nature of literally getting your wires crossed!