Going on an Office Depot Run

I'm actually too tired to check if this is real or sheer BS...

In the current issue of the journal Nature, Dr. Putterman and his colleagues report that surprisingly fierce flows of electrons were unleashed as the tape was unpeeled and its gooey adhesive snapped free of the surface. The electrical currents, in turn, generated strong, short bursts of X-rays — each burst, about a billionth of a second long, contained about 300,000 X-ray photons.

How does one even think to check for something like this? It's like wondering who exactly was the first human being to discover that licking certain species of toad could get you high.