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TIL the iconic sketch comedy show, In Living Color, is responsible for today's Super Bowl halftime extravaganza.

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98ZB TIL That in 2011 in the US there were 1694 murders using knives, 496 murders with blunt object, 726 using bare hands and feet, and just 323 murders using rifles (including the ‘assault’ variety)
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