Here are a few facts about electricity and your home you may not have known:

The first light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879.
Edison was a prolific inventor with 1093 patents to his name, not bad for someone who attended shcool for only 3 months!
The Statue of Liberty was the first lighthouse to use electricity in 1886.
Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only move from one place to another.
Electricity travels at 300,000km/sec, or 8 times around the world in a second!
Fridges with side by side doors use the most electricity.
All UK homes are to have smart meters by 2020, eliminating the need for estimating bills.
One lightning bolt has enough electricity to service 200,000 homes.
20 minutes use of an electric oven would power a clock for 3 months.
A bulb in America has been lit since 1901.
A battery was found in 1957 in Bahgdad, over 2250 years old!
Luigi Galvani's jumping frog leg experiments prompted the writing of Frankenstein in 1818.