1 A highly excitable pup that jumps at you is cute but an 18 lb pup can grow up to 80 lbs rather quickly. A full grown 80 lb Labrador Retriever habitually jumping at you is not.  Labradors should learn to cope and connect with other people and dogs. This breed is very social; they like to feel that they are not alone.
Below are some additional facts about lightning: 1  25 million - Average U.S. cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per year. 2  50,000 degrees (F) - Temperature that lightning can reach. 3  1,800 - Average number of thunderstorms on earth at any given moment.  100 - Number of times lightning hits earth per second.
LÃ³pez 2003). The annual number of lightning. deaths has been compiled in the US since 1900, and in several other developed countries for. extensive but varying periods. However, there has. been little systematic collection of information on. lightning deaths in many regions of the world. Holle. and LÃ³pez (2003) made an assessment of the. worldwide impact of lightning, and concluded that. 24,000 deaths and 240,000 injuries occur per year.