A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Why it is true
The electrical discharge heats the air around it to about thirty thousand degrees Celsius in an instant, which causes the rapid expansion of air and creates the shockwave we hear as thunder.
Source: Meteorology Lab
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