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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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    Kobe Bryant was named after a steak.
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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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    Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
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    The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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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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    No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
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