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TIL 9 out of the 10 most watched TV broadcasts in the US are the last 9 Superbowls; the only non-football entry is the final broadcast of MAS*H in 1983

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4glg TIL Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.
d88LE TIL of Battle of Nations, an international, full-contact, historical medieval competition where people wear real armor and fight with real weapons every year in a castle in Europe
PYmln TIL Jason Sudeikis from SNL is the nephew of actor George Wendt, known for his role as Norm Peterson on Cheers
E8oP TIL: January 29, 1845: “The Raven” published in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem was enormously popular and soon made Poe a household name, but it did not bring Poe any financial success. He received $9 for the poem.
4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.