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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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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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    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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    When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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    During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
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    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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    So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
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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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