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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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    The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
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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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    The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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    Lars Andersen has rediscovered an ancient form of archery that allows him to shoot 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds, while it takes others 13-35 seconds. He is even faster than the fictional archer Legolas in the Lord of the Rings series.
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    Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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