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

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kOO7e TIL advice given to avoid alcohol while taking antibiotics was for moral reasons, not pharmacological.
vPBDR TIL that the song “Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
VMj08 TIL In Firozpur district, Punjab, everyone who applies for a firearm license must plant ten trees and provide photos of them doing so
5YO1k TIL that during an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".