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Yes -- in the form of lightning, which has been on our Earth for a few billion years.

Ancient Egyptians were aware of the electric jolt that an eel could give.

Ancient Greeks knew that rubbing certain objects would cause them to be able to pick up light objects such as feathers -- ie, they knew about static electricity.

In the late 1500s, William Gilbert was the first to state that electricity and magnetism were different phenomena.

In 1663, Otto von Guericke developed a rotating globe apparatus that permitted quick and easy accumulation of electric charge. After that, studies of electricity proceeded much more rapidly.

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