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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.