Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!
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The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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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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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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At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
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Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
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