Planet Earth fact
A lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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Lightning can heat the air around it to about 30,000 °C, roughly five times hotter than the Sun’s surface. The sudden heating makes the air expand explosively, which is the sound of thunder.
Source: Lightning (Wikipedia)
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