Sports Facts

    Random Sports Facts

    There are 40 Sports Facts!

    Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
    94
    It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
    73
    Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
    433
    The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
    41
    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
    90
    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.
    59
    From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
    91
    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.
    6