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TIL- the old lady in the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case” suffered severe 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body and needed skin grafts. The media blew it up to favor tort reform and the settlement in the case was the calculation of coffee sales McDonalds made in two days.

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WkKL8 TIL about Saturn (alligator). It was hatched in Mississippi, lived in the Berlin Zoo during the war, was one of the 96 out of 16,000 animals to survive the war, and then proceeded to live in the Moscow Zoo until it died in 2020
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