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TIL of the Service Recovery Paradox - If a customer has an issue with a company, and the company then remedy this, that person is more likely to rate that company highly than if there was no problem at all

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m1wLO TIL four Catholic Priests survived less than a mile from the blast of the A Bomb on Hiroshima
P1AKg TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. Claire Howell said she put the autographs in a cupboard as she was worried they would fade.
Z8gQp TIL that some people are more sensitive to light at night due to the way the hormones controlling our 'body clocks' have been altered by artifical lighting
awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.
DQY6V TIL that the longest English word is 189,819 letters long and describes a type of protein.