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

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eprMD TIL that airline pilots routinely fall asleep mid-flight — and in one shocking study, 43% admitted they had woken up only to find their co-pilot asleep too.
v1N9x TIL Less than a quarter of U.S. workers report using math any more complicated than basic fractions and percentages during the course of their jobs. Blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends
VMk5m TIL Phantom traffic jams (queues of traffic not caused by vehicle collisions or roadworks) are the result of a single driver braking suddenly, causing each successive car to break to a greater degree, creating a wave of stopped or slowed traffic.
5RJ9 TIL that the Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the importation of slaves.
nGkd TIL in 1963 at age 11, Kurt Russell starred in a movie with Elvis Presley. 16 years later, a 27-year-old Russell played Elvis in a TV movie, and 15 years after that, voiced Elvis in Forrest Gump.