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    The first baseball caps were made of straw.
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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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    At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
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    From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
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    The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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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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    A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a 'puck-off'.
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