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TIL that data consistently show a spike in traffic deaths following the Super Bowl, and a spike in drunk-driving deaths specifically. For the five Super Bowls between 2015 and 2019, there were 244 total traffic deaths nationwide in the 12-hour period during and after the Super Bowl.

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10k4 TIL that the founder and CEO of a Greek yogurt company (Chobani) was a Turkish immigrant who came to the U.S. with only $3,000 and bought an abandoned factory, and started producing yogurt. Now, his company generates over a billion dollars in revenue.
KOxgJ TIL Until the late 1970s, 80s, classical music received almost as much coverage as professional sports. Leonard Bernstein's 1943 concert was broadcast live on radio to millions of listeners, and was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times
kJ6K7 TIL that the Simon and Garfunkel's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" inverts the meaning of "troubled water" found in traditional African-American spirituals. The original line the song was based on was by Gospel singer Claude Jeter and referred to a bridge over "deep" water, not troubled.
e0XLJ TIL That Weird Al Yankovic wanted to include the song Yoda on an album, but securing permission from both George Lucas and the Kinks delayed the physical release of the song for about five years. Lucas eventually gave Yankovic permission.
DJQr TIL in 1992, 28000 rubber ducks fell off a shipping container in the Pacific and revolutionized our understanding of ocean circulation