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Regardless of the rebrand

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I'll still refer Sunny D by its former name Sunny Delight.

This advert is not for a digital equaliser

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But rather Sagres Preta back in 2001.

Interesting fact about Chelsea women's football club

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They have more league titles than the men's team with eight (2015, 2017, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24).

Portuguese football club Braga has this honour

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They're the only Portuguese football club outside the Big Three to have won a European title, having won the very last UEFA Intertoto Cup in late 2008.

From a block of steel...

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To a Ford Transit.

This Audi A2 commercial is remembered for one thing

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It's the one with an Elvis impersonator.

Last music video shown on Viva

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It was indeed "Viva Forever" by Spice Girls.

The music video for Dir En Grey's "Obscure"

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It will always be the one with a geisha eating a baby's head. I'm not even joking.

Inspired by Paranormal Activity

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This was an ad for Nokia Maemo back in 2009.

Telecel/Vodafone Portugal's mobile network for youths

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This was before Vodafone UK launched Voxi.

One of the films snubbed at this year's Oscars

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It's the dystopian political thriller Civil War , starring Kirsten Dunst.

Until this year in question

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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train  was the highest grossing American animated film, as it grossed over $500 million during its 2020 release.

One of Pringles' last ads before the upcoming merger

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By merger, I mean the Kellogg's (or Kellanova)/Mars merger.

Little Caesars' pizza are so good...

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That they make Eugene Levy's eyebrows fly away.

Closest thing to a fifth Portuguese national TV channel

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It's none other than Correio da Manhã TV, given their switch towards generalist programming in recent years.

In a week's time...

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Eurosport will be departing from the UK, but the channels will still broadcast in continental Europe.

The song used in this Microsoft Surface ad from 2018

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It's none other than "Cherry Lips" by Garbage.

Here's some test footage of James Cameron's Avatar

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Prior to principal photography, Cameron shot a 37-second technical demonstration proof of concept short with Lost  actress Yunjin Kim as Neytiri and 24  actor Daniel Bess as Jake.

When Piccadilly Circus comes to mind to me, I think of this

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Yep, it's these iconic billboard signs.

What would've been the first domed stadium in the world

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This unbuilt stadium for Brooklyn Dodgers before they ultimately decided to relocate to Los Angeles in 1957, was going to be located at Fort Greene, Brooklyn and the area for the proposed stadium would later be utilised for the Atlantic Terminal shopping mall and Brooklyn Nets' arena Barclays Center. The first domed stadium would happen in 1965 with the Houston Astrodome.

Hot Chocolate's best known song

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Best known as the "I believe in miracles" song.

Sony once followed into Nokia's footsteps

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Yep, it was the Xperia Play, which was launched in 2011 and served as an extension to the PlayStation line.

ITV's ill-fated quiz show channel

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From 2006 to 2007, ITV had a sixth branded channel called ITV Play, which relied on phone-in quiz shows than game shows like Challenge and as a result of the phone-in scandals in spring 2007, the channel shut down soon after.

While the Billboard Hot 100 began in 1958

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In actuality, the American singles chart from Billboard magazine began in 1940, though the earliest example was in fact the chart for the NBC radio show Your Hit Parade , which began in 1935 before it ended a week before Billboard began their singles chart.

This London Underground line has the fewest stations

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So much so that it only operates on weekdays.

Sunkist had this British advert back in 1996

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It's a pity that the soft drink is not as popular in the UK as they once were.

Once a big store, now demolished to make way for redevelopment

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This is what used to be the Currys PC World megastores in Wandsworth Bridge before they shut down on February 2020.

During the late Nineties, Super Bock had this variation

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It's the chilled Super Bock Cool Beer.

Next Sunday, this could happen to the NFL

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Could the Kansas City Chiefs be the second team to score three consecutive NFL championship titles after the Green Bay Packers? Only time will tell when they face against the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LIX, which will air on Fox in the US and ITV1 in the UK, while the halftime show will be headlined by Kendrick Lamar with special guest SZA.

What does Stormzy have in common with McDonald's?

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Well, he's become the first famous person in the UK to get his order available as a meal deal.

One of the overlooked billboards in Times Square

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It's this distinctive JVC globe next to the ABC Jumbotron.  

The last film to be released on the Laserdisc format

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The 2000 Hongkonger film Tokyo Raiders , was released on this format on September 21, 2001 by Golden Harvest.