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    Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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    In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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    At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
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    A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a 'puck-off'.
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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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    Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
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    The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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    During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
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