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

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K8p9 TIL: Lefties Aren’t Allowed to Play Polo
e051L TIL the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.
4k9nX TIL French art critic Charles Baudelaire hated photography and thought it would be the death of art, saying "the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies"
4k0wg TIL that, of the over 1,000,000 insect species identified, only 5 live permanently on the open ocean. They belong to the Halobates genus, which belongs to the Gerridae family (commonly known as water striders.)
B96r TIL The act of “pouring one out for the homies” has been around since Ancient Egypt.