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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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    At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
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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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    All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!
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    There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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    Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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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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    Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
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