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

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0drmp TIL Elton John's moving song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" was written as a tribute to a friend who talked him out of suicide and helped him come to terms with his homosexuality. The friend was musician Long John Baldry more well known nowadays for voicing Dr. Robotnik in the 90s Sonic cartoon.
e0xY5 TIL Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, is related to John Harington, the man who invented the first flushable toilet.
mJE TIL convicted pedophiles in Russia can choose between jail time or chemical castration
9Y9QB TIL Terry Crews used to draw and sell paintings of his colleagues while playing for NFL to help with his finances and of his family
OodKY TIL Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane once planned to dose Richard Nixon with 600mg of LSD while visiting the White House.