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TIL Comcast has the worst customer service reviews of any company, with 54.4% of those surveyed claimed that their overall customer experience was negative. This is Comcast’s seventh consecutive year on the Customer Service Hall of Shame, and its first year at the top.

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D1orD TIL Mt. Everest guide Scott Fischer claimed, "We've got the Big E figured out, we've got it totally wired. These days, I'm telling you, we've built a yellow brick road to the summit." Fischer and 7 others were killed in a blizzard on Mt. Everest, and his body is still on the mountain.
Ae9n TIL George Washinton’s adopted son was the father-in-law of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
wLL77 It’s never as smelly as you think it is
ADaAg TIL McDonalds once came up with bubblegum flavoured broccoli, in an attempt to get kids to eat healthier. It was never introduced as children found the flavour confusing.
1ad0d TIL US citizens are essentially tax prisoners everywhere they go and even if they've never physically lived in the US - subject to laborious reporting requirements with punitive penalties for non-compliance that grow even larger if they try to leave the system by ending citizenship.