-More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.
-Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest.
-A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
-In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.
-A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.
-The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
-There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.
-Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.
-The SEC leads the NCAA in total major violations of rules since recording began in 1953 with 42 violations.
-More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
-A soccer ball has 32 panels.
-Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
-Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
-A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.
-Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest.
-A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
-In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.
-A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.
-The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
-There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.
-Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.
-The SEC leads the NCAA in total major violations of rules since recording began in 1953 with 42 violations.
-More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
-A soccer ball has 32 panels.
-Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
-Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
-A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.
All taken from somewhere on the internet... :)
-Jeremy [Retro]
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The SEC should be so proud...
ReplyDeleteAnd good for Pittsburgh - they are color-coordinated.
Most of these we knew ... Know a Lot of "useless facts",... my Friends ... and others (especially kids) enjoy asking me odd questions... and almost always, we can rattle off a batch of info...
ReplyDeletewe have wasted my entire life learning all that I could.... Amassed quite a bit of knowledge over these many years.... now all that info dies with me....
... but, good Sir, we still really enjoy reading lists of "Facts" , just for fun...
an enjoyable post ....
I didn't know even half of these. The number of cows for footballs shocked me but not the news about the SEC.
ReplyDeleteSusan Says
I actually knew that about the kings in cards. i also know they represent specific kings like Charlemagne.
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