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Prior to losing the $3 million settlement to the lady who spilled coffee and got 3rd degree burns, Mcdonald's had over 700 reports of injuries from similar incidents.

Stella Lieback, the woman who sued McDonald's over split hot coffee was 79 at the time, suffered 3rd degree burns and spent over a week in the hospital requiring skin grafts and other treatments. She only sued McDonalds so they could cover all medical expenses, they offered a paltry $800.

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1. The actor who played the gungan chief, Boss Nass, in Star Wars Ep I (Brian Blessed) survived a plane crash in the rainforest of Venezuela, boxed w/ the Dalai Lama, climbed Everest 3 times, and is a 3rd degree black belt

2. The biggest bomb that ever exploded was a Russian Atom Bomb - All buildings located 55 km(34 mi) from ground zero were destroyed, heat from the explosion could have caused 3rd-degree burns 100 km(62 mi) away from ground zero and windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km(560 mi)

3. 3rd degree burns aren't the most severe category. The most severe burns are 6th degree burns, which have penetrated skin and started to char bone.

4. The largest nuclear explosion today would have caused 3rd degree burns up to 62 miles away.

5. About Archduchess Matilda of Austria. Before going to the theater, she wanted to smoke a cigarette but when her anti-smoking father approached her, she had her cigarette behind her gauze dress--thus immediately setting her dress on fire, giving her 2nd and 3rd degree burns, and killing her.

6. After falling in love with BJJ, Chuck Norris bought his instructors a gym in Encino rather than drive down the I 405. Norris would eventually earn a 3rd degree black belt from those instructors

7. There is a plant that came from Asia, has spread to North America and Europe that can cause 3rd degree burns on the skin when touched! It can also cause permanent blindness.

8. 3rd degree burns aren't the worst burns one can get.

9. Tsar Bomba the biggest nuke, Can destroy anything in a 15 mile radius and give 3rd degree burns to anything in a 65 mile radius.

10. Fake fingernails are very flammable. One lady was sent to the hospital after her cigarette butt ignited her acrylic fingernail and got 3rd degree burns on her thumb.

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A man name Clifford Johnson survived the Cocoanut Grove Fire with severe 3rd degree burns, becoming the most severely burned person to survive his injuries. 14 years later, he burned to death in a car accident.

Sap from the giant hogweed plant and sunlight cause 3rd degree burns. - source

A Coast Guardsman called Clifford Johnson went back into the Cocoanut Grove fire at least 5 times, had 55% of his body covered with 3rd degree burns (half of those up to his bones) and survived... only to die in a fire 14 years later - source

The Tsar Bomba had a larger blast radius than its radiation zone, making it the cleanest yet deadliest nuclear bomb ever made; with a 60 kilometer radius that can inflict 3rd degree burns.

Michael Jackson's afro caught on fire while he was making a Pepsi commercial, he suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns - source

The women sue McDonald over hot coffee was due to the 3rd-degree burns from boiling hot coffee and ask them to pay for her $10k+ medical bills & check the temperature of the coffee and not as what the media projected her to seems.

The hogweed plant can transmit photo cytotoxins that cause 3rd degree burns and can last up to a decade, being re-activated by sunlight.

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In the "frivolous" McDonald's coffee lawsuit, the old lady who sued experienced 3rd degree burns on 6 percent of her skin including her legs and genitals and had to get skin grafts because the coffee was 190°F.

Tsar Bomba the biggest nuke, Can destroying anything in a 15 mile radius and giving 3rd degree burns to anything in a 65 mile radius.

Christopher Hitchens earned a "3rd Class Degree" from Oxford, which was labeled the "Sportsman" degree, implying the student didn't study a lot.