As strange as it sounds, in 1998, 11 members of a Congolese soccer team were all electrocuted to death. It’s bizarre considering your chances of electrocution by lightening are about 1 in 300,000. Of course, all the Congolese players were wearing metal studded cleats, whereas the opposing team were wearing rubberized ones.

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