› added 1 year ago

117

TIL background music help with concentration - it increases task-focus and decreases mind-wandering

Read more ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

DQanP TIL During the 1990's, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unsuccessfully experimented with anthrax, botulinum toxin, cholera, Ebola, and Q fever.
Vgk0 TIL in 1987 a South Korean man went on a 57 person killing spree lasting over 8 hours after his girlfriend woke him up by swatting a fly on his chest.
kJnKm TIL of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved black Muslim scholar from the 18th century. Although his slave owners believed he had converted to Christianity, his autobiography revealed that he was still Muslim. His love for Jesus was interpreted as Christian, when Jesus is also a Muslim Prophet.
kJW4e TIL of Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, who in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure".
VB0BD TIL that an XY genetic male was born with a womb, and was able to give birth to twins