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Every year some old colleagues and I have an informal competition to see which one of us can be last to inadvertently learn who won the Super Bowl. For a few years, just after I emigrated to europe, I had an unfair advantage, but no longer, because of pervasive internet.

Trying to look away from American politics suffers a similar problem.

(I once asked a farmer in a remote mountain village what her goats were named; the answer was: Hilary, George, and Barack)

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Wow, I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I couldn't tell you who won any superbowl if my life depended on it.

I have seen several of the infamous "superbowl ads" though, those seem truly inescapable.