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TIL forms of brain training, including music and chess, do little to improve cognitive abilities except for the specific trained skill and similar skills

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pyKA TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China.
awGyo TIL Billionaire Aristotle Onassis (who married Jacqueline Kennedy after JFK's assassination) upholstered his yacht's bar stools with whale foreskins
xBWg TIL BB King played at a hall in 1949 in which 2 men fought and started a fire. He escaped but realized his guitar was inside. He ran into the hall and saved it. The 2 men were fighting over a girl, Lucille, so King vowed never to fight over a girl. King named all his guitars Lucille as a reminder.
R1Xl TIL James Cameron was stricken with food poisoning and during his illness, Cameron had a nightmare about an invincible robot hitman sent from the future to kill him, giving him the idea for The Terminator, which later catapulted his film career.
rNwL0 TIL of Murderers Row, a group of ethnic minority boxers in the 1940’s, who were considered too dangerous to be given a world championship opportunity.