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    The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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    Yao Ming's Father Was the Tallest Man in China, Mother Was Tallest Female Basketball Player
    The Chinese government "encouraged" the country's tallest female basketball player to marry the country's tallest man. Their child was Yao Ming.
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    People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
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    When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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    The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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    There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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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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    There is a growing sport in Berlin and London called Chess Boxing. Players alternate between a round of chess and a round of boxing until one is declared winner either by checkmate, KO, or technical stoppage.
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