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- Sep 26, 2021
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Leave your random tidbits of random knowledge and sudden epiphanies here!
A thread for all those who have no one to pour their immense knowledge about random subjects out or just want to pour them out in more places.
You could post one fun fact a day and make it a bit of a daily thing that might help you and maybe someone else feel better.
No subject is too trivial, niche or broad, no knowledge too superficial, too well-known or too specific. Politics, videogames, the history of chocolate production. It's all fair game.
I'll start:
There is a court case that is often derided as utterly frivolous: The infamous McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit, wherein a woman sued McDonalds because their coffee was too hot. Many people leave it at that. "America's court system is so fucked up that you can sue McDonalds because you drank your coffee too hot and win."
This is not what happened at all.
The elderly woman spilled the coffee onto her legs, where it caused her burns so bad that her labial skin fused with the skin of her thigh. The coffee was over 190 degrees Fahrenheit or almost 90 degrees Celsius, absurdly hot. The only reason she sued McDonald's is because she could not otherwise afford medical bills.
Here's an article that talks summarises the situation nicely:
And that's the random bit of knowledge of the day with AntHydra.
A thread for all those who have no one to pour their immense knowledge about random subjects out or just want to pour them out in more places.
You could post one fun fact a day and make it a bit of a daily thing that might help you and maybe someone else feel better.
No subject is too trivial, niche or broad, no knowledge too superficial, too well-known or too specific. Politics, videogames, the history of chocolate production. It's all fair game.
I'll start:
There is a court case that is often derided as utterly frivolous: The infamous McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit, wherein a woman sued McDonalds because their coffee was too hot. Many people leave it at that. "America's court system is so fucked up that you can sue McDonalds because you drank your coffee too hot and win."
This is not what happened at all.
The elderly woman spilled the coffee onto her legs, where it caused her burns so bad that her labial skin fused with the skin of her thigh. The coffee was over 190 degrees Fahrenheit or almost 90 degrees Celsius, absurdly hot. The only reason she sued McDonald's is because she could not otherwise afford medical bills.
Here's an article that talks summarises the situation nicely:
What a lot of people get wrong about the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit
Adam Ruins Everything explains that the case wasn’t about greed, but about a working-class woman forcing a big company to make its product safer.
www.google.com
And that's the random bit of knowledge of the day with AntHydra.
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