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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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
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In England, there's a phenomenon called the "half-time kettle effect" where power use surges at half-time during England's matches in the World Cup as everyone turns on their tea kettles at the same time.
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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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