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    The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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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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    In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse in a game of tennis. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203, accepted the challenge and easily beat them, 6-1, 6-2.
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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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    A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a 'puck-off'.
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    The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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    In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
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