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Young child on a slippery slide with static in his hair.

"The excess charge goes to the edge of your body,"
Dr Livesey said.

A man in jeans with bare feet on a black mat. There's a white cord plugged into it.

A European honey bee squeezing its head into a flower for pollen.

"A spider bite can hurt you, or even kill you, by stopping those electrical charges,"
Dr Livesey said.

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