| A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a 'puck-off'. |
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| All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job! |
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| At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel. |
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| At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time! |
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| Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings! |
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| Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third. |
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| Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. |
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| Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game. |
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| Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers. |
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| During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles. |
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| Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC! |
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| From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Race car for about 30 feet! |
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| In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass. |
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| In England, the top three most viewed sports on TV are soccer, Formula One auto racing and boxing. |
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| In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living. |
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| It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. |
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| Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand. |
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| Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year. |
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| Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air. |
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| No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second. |
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| People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport. |
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| Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold. |
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| Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds. |
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| Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race. |
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| So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball. |
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| The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches! |
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| The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million. |
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| The first baseball caps were made of straw. |
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| The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference. |
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| The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club! |
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| The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing. |
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| The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1. |
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| The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates. |
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| The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929. |
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| The song Take Me Out to the Ballgame was heard 250 different ways in a 1994 Ken Burns documentary. |
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| The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high. |
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| The state sport of Maryland is Jousting. |
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| The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'" |
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| Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey. |
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| Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle. |
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| Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920. |
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| When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit. |
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