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The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.

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Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the Klitschko family.

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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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So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.

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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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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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A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a 'puck-off'.

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In the 2004 Harvard-Yale game, Yale students tricked thousands of Harvard fans into holding up cards that together spelled out "WE SUCK."

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