Sports

Bizarre Fact #81:
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Ten events make up the decathlon.

Bizarre Fact #82:
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The 1900 Olympics were held in Paris, France.

Bizarre Fact #83:
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The 1990 New York Yankee pitching staff set an all-time record with the fewest complete games, three.

Bizarre Fact #84:
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The average rikishi tips the scales at about 280 pounds, but in 1988 the heaviest sumo westler ever recorded weighed in at a thundering 560 pounds.

Bizarre Fact #85:
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The Chinese Nationalist Golf Association claims the game is of Chinese origin (ch'ui wan - the ball hitting game) in the third or 2nd century BC. There were official ordinances prohibiting a ball game with clubs in Belgium and Holland from 1360.

Bizarre Fact #86:
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The city of Denver was chosen to host and then refused the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Bizarre Fact #87:
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The five Olympic rings represent the continents.

Bizarre Fact #88:
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The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

Bizarre Fact #89:
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The Iditarod dog sled race - from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska - commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome following a diphtheria epidemic.

Bizarre Fact #90:
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The Indianapolis 500 is run on Memorial Day.