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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In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
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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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In England, there's a phenomenon called the "half-time kettle effect" where power use surges at half-time during England's matches in the World Cup as everyone turns on their tea kettles at the same time.
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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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