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Big Storm Coming

Hate thunderstorms? Well, you might not like to learn that there are about 2,000 happening around the world at any one time. It's just some math applied to a very terrifying ordeal. The United States has about 100,000 thunderstorms annually. Around the world though, this number is about 16 million annually. That means there's about 2,000 happening all the time.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.