Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 🥵☕ A California delivery driver won $50 million in a lawsuit after sustaining serious burns when a Starbucks hot tea spilled in his lap at a drive-thru.
• 🖕 47% of US adults say the way people behave in public today is ruder than before the Covid pandemic; 44% say public behavior is about the same, and 9% say it’s better.
• 💰 Americans lost $5.7 billion to investment scams last year, up 24% from 2023 and more than any other kind of fraud.
• 🎓⚖️ The number of applicants to America’s ~200 law schools is up 20.5% compared with last year.
• 🚂 There were 65,000+ railroad thefts last year, up 40% from 2023, with total combined losses of $100+ million.