Kevin C. Cox, Getty Images
Want to be the smartest person in the room while watching this year s Super Bowl? Bust out a few of these fun facts about Big Games past.
1. Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest eating day of the year.
iStock.com/bhofack2
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Super Bowl Sunday is America s second-largest food consumption day. (Only Thanksgiving Day beats it.)
2. Those rumors about sewage systems failing because of all the flushing toilets during halftime are just that: rumors.
kanjana intaounwong/iStock via Getty Images
A persistent rumor says that sewage systems in major cities occasionally fail during Super Bowl halftimes, because a large volume of people supposedly all flush their toilets simultaneously. Don t worry! There s absolutely no evidence to support this claim.