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Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of baseball’s greatest batters, ran a liquor store after he was banned from baseball.

Sports Illustrated has the largest sports magazine circulation.

The 1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was to tired to participate in the championship match.

The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to be aired on television by CBS.

The Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire season.

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team.

The city of Denver was originally chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but had to withdraw because Colorado voters rejected to finance it.

The expression getting someone’s goat is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a racehorse as the horse’s companion. The goat becomes a settling influence on the thoroughbred. If you owned a competing horse and were not above some dirty

The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their turn to play racquets, knocked a ball around in a confined area adjoining the racquets court.

The game rugby was originated at Rugby school located in England in 1823. This happened when William Webb Ellis, while playing soccer, picked the ball up in his hands and started running with it.

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Ellen Macarthur, yachtswoman, had a total of 891 naps in 94 days that were each 36 minutes long while on her Vendee Round the Globe yacht race.

France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia have always been in the modern Olympics since it began in 1896.

Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize.

In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar with a monkey in the seat beside him.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry said, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.” On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Apollo 11 landed on the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run.

In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him

In Australia, a common “Boxing day” activity is surfing.

In the 1930’s, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger.

On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten time more than males do while playing sports.

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an “Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.”

A superstition in Baseball is to never lend your bat to anyone or you will be jinxed.

Abie Goldberry, a Quebec junior hockey player from the 1930’s was hit by a puck while playing hockey, which ignited a set of matches that he had in his pocket. His uniform caught on fire and he was burned quite badly before the fire was put out.

Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.

At the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Walt Disney was head of the committee that organized the opening day ceremonies.

Badminton originates from a sport in India called “poona.”

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA records.

Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891.

Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team.

Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players.

Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships.

Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event.

Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA.

Electronic companies sell five times as many big-screen TVs during Super Bowl Week.

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John Bunyan, who was a popular writer from the 1700’s, was put in prison for twelve years for preaching.

Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal.

The biggest selling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.”

The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff.

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses.

There’s a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha. The name of the temple is “Temple of the Tooth.”

The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos, which starts with the letter “X,” they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Chri

The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years.

The Shroud of Turin is the single most studied artifact in human history.

The world’s largest church is located in Yamoussoukro, which is the capital of Cote d’Ivoire, Africa.

It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle.

The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century.

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.

American President John Tyler had 15 children.

George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.

Half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent.

Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government.

In his youth, United States president George W. Bush used to play for the Midland (Texas) Central Little League. He played the position of the catcher.

The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.

The first president to ride in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt.

The heaviest United States President was William Howard Taft who weighed 332 pounds.

The youngest U.S. president is Theodore Roosevelt, who became president at the age of 42.

U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only man to receive the “Time’s Man of the Year” award three times. He received it in the years 1932, 1934, and 1941.

7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.

Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible.

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word “not” out of the seventh commandment, which then read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” This legendary book is now known as the “Wicked Bible.”

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.