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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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AN0lx TIL of French Neo-Socialist, Marcel Déat. In May of 1939 he wrote 'Why Die for Danzig' (Mourir pour Dantzig?) urging France to appease Hitler by surrendering to his ultimatum for Danzig. Déat would later act as a collaborator with Vichy France.
7K1X TIL that “sardine” isn’t actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.
6967W TIL that Bill Withers intended to write more lirycs instead of repeating "I know" as a placeholder for 26 times in his famous song "Ain't no sunshine", but other musicians advised him to leave it like that so it stayed.
ovPr TIL in 2004, the German post office gave away 20 million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell nice.
QJPkM TIL that in Hinduism, atheism is considered to be a valid path to spirituality, as it can be argued that God can manifest in several forms with "no form" being one of them.