This can happen to any device if there's a one-off manufacturing problem somewhere (esp in the battery).
I don't see it very often, but I've seen it on a Surface Pro (the store display model!... I had to point it out to the staff and suggest they replace it before it caught fire and hurt a shopper), on my 2014 MBP after 4 years, and some other device I now forget about.
Unless lots of people are reporting this for a given device, it's probably just a fluke. It can happen, but it usually doesn't.
