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TIL that the woman who won $2.9 million by suing McDonald’s over spilled hot coffee asked for only $20,000, to cover her medical bills.

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QJX1M TIL that in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
J078 TIL that before the invention of the internal combustion engine, gasoline was considered a useless byproduct of the oil refining process used to make kerosene.
v1G8 TIL prior to completion of a national paved roads system, it took future President Eisenhower’s truck convoy four months to cross the United States… leading him to propose and support the Interstate system 30 years later.
xVA57 TIL Wesley Snipes led cops in Florida on a 120mph chase on his Kawasaki 1100 before crashing it and got caught/fined for carrying a concealed handgun in California without a concealed carry permit after crashing another bike.
KOXlw TIL that an annual televised showing of Disney cartoons at Christmas Eve is a serious Swedish holiday tradition of near-Super Bowl level viewership