Super efficient lights known as LEDs are in widespread use in car tail lights, cell phones, and TV screens around the world.

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Super Bowl halftime show literally put the lights out.

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In one of the most bizarre Super Bowl episodes in history, the stadium lights went out for 35 minutes early in the second half.

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It was a high-energy, super-charged performance, which left the stadium without lights.

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Decked out in a blue suit and a red, polka-dotted tie with a matching handkerchief in his breast pocket, he stands with guests for pictures alongside three silver Super Bowl trophies, which gleam and wink in the lights.

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Super Bowl XLVII didn't begin that way but it certainly became so, once the lights returned.

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The lights weren't out at local polling stations before she was on a plane to a Super Tuesday state.

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