UK professor concludes: cellphones don't cause gas station fires
A professor from University of Kent in the UK has decided to settle once and for all whether cellphones can cause gas station fires. He studied all 243 gas station fires from the past 11 years that were supposedly sparked by cellphones and determined that not a single one was actually caused by a handset. The actual cause? Static electricity. Via
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