When did static electricity become a common occurrence?

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The first verifiable mention I could find was in Theophrastus (circa 300 BC):

[Lyngourion] has the power of attraction, just as amber has, and some say that it not only attracts straws and bits of wood, but also copper and iron, if the pieces are this, as Diokles used to explain. -- Theophrastus

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