I’m really interested to hear more details about how this is possible, because it’s scary but fascinating! Here in Australia we have 230V, and getting shocked

I’m really interested to hear more details about how this is possible, because it’s scary but fascinating! Here in Australia we have 230V, and getting shocked is not at all common - we have very strict electrical standards for both installations and devices, residual current devices (GFCI equilivalents) now required on every single circuit, everything either has a proper ground or is double-insulated (unlike the US sockets here without a ground pin are very uncommon because you can’t plug a lot of devices in to them) etc. There was a possibility where you could pull the plug out very slightly and slide something like a knife in between the plug and socket and touch the active and neutral pins, so the standards were changed many years ago now so compliant plugs now have insulation on the live and neutral pins for the first half of their length (see an example plug here - https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/power-cords/0321168 https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/power-cords/0321168 ).