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    The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
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    Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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    Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
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    The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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    Longest Marathon Time
    Longest Marathon Time
    At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
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    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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    From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
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