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Want to be the smartest person in the room while watching this year s Super Bowl? Bust out a few of these fun facts about Big Games past.
1. Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest eating day of the year.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Super Bowl Sunday is America s second-largest food consumption day. (Only Thanksgiving Day beats it.)
2. Those rumors about sewage systems failing because of all the flushing toilets during halftime are just that: rumors.
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A persistent rumor says that sewage systems in major cities occasionally fail during Super Bowl halftimes, because a large volume of people supposedly all flush their toilets simultaneously. Don t worry! There s absolutely no evidence to support this claim.
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It’s time to fire up the time circuits once again to venture back in time to when t Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” was number one on the radio,
Taken was the top movie after knocking out Paul Blart Mall Cop from the top and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of Government in the modern world. Meanwhile, the Steelers were in the Super Bowl for the seventh time looking for a record sixth victory. Their opponent was led by former assistant coaches Ken Whisenhunt and Russ Grimm and a future assistant in Todd Haley. It was the Steelers and Cardinals in Tampa for Super Bowl XLIII.