The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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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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The first baseball caps were made of straw.
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The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!
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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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