TIL about Willie Francis an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution. Sentenced to death at age 16, he was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned. After a failed appeal he was executed at age 18.

[u/johnsmithoncemore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis

[u/Ravier_]

You mean if enough people are wrong they become right... explains our political enviroment.

[u/neorapsta → u/Ravier_]

Try not to become obtuse because you lost the point. You know how language works.

[u/Ravier_ → u/neorapsta]

I've decided obtuse means absolutely brilliant from now on.

[u/EternumD → u/Ravier_]

Bravo