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TIL talking aloud can be a sign of high cognitive function and it is a practice of many high performance people (including professional athletes)

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awy4A TIL that in 1954, in Italy, a soccer match (Fiorentina vs Pistoiese) was suspended because multiple unidentified flying objects were spoted above the stadium and the whole city of Firenze. After a while a white sticky substance started falling from the sky. What happened is still a mistery.
R5Pl7 TIL about something called a cigarette umbrella it was a quirky invention from 1931 designed to protect a lit cigarette from rain. It clipped on like a mini umbrella. But it didn’t work so well.
d84oE TIL that fish and chips were considered so important that it was one of the items not rationed during World War 2.
VBNA8 TIL the world's second-largest Hindu temple is in New Jersey
l71MG TIL No Kum-sok, who was a member of the Korean People's Army Air, fell out of romation while flying a Mig-18 and defected by landing in the wrong direction at Kimpo Air Base in South Korea. He also received today's equivalent of $1,012,811 for defecting with an operational aircraft.