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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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    At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
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    In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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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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    Hockey player Jarome Iginla donates $2,000 to the children’s charity Kidsport for every goal he scores. Since 2000 it has added up to more than $700,000.
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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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    Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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