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    The first baseball caps were made of straw.
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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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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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    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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    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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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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    So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
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    Longest Marathon Time
    Longest Marathon Time
    At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
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