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Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world. As long as you have a small collection of interestingor even insightfulsports facts. I decided to choose 10, even though i was gutted to miss kok baru which is one of the most unique sports around the world. The sport involves participants who don snorkeling gear and squirm their way through 150 feet of slurry and bog without using conventional swimming techniques i. My son enjoys reading sports books for kids, especially anything related to football. Discover tons more zany fun, focused totally on the subject of sports. This seems to be another case of journalism that is intended to obscure the facts rather than shine light on them. They were covered in drawings, leather and even gold so there wasnt a place for the author s name. He still plays ice hockey, and is known as the expert on obscure rules and history of the game because of this book. This was a great collection of many sports stats and trivia. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page.
So step up to the plate to get 300 allnew amazing facts plus photos. The record for highest score in a hockey game belongs to the 2008 slovakian womens team, which beat bulgaria 820 in a preolympic qualifier. Sf writer isaac asimov 19201992 is the only author to have published a book in. Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with. Even if you are a hardcore fan of football, there may still be many things that you dont know about this amazing sport. Brain waves can be used to power an electric train. When jimmy pearsall hit his 100th home run in 1963, he ran the bases in the correct order but facing backward to celebrate 2. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. Uncle johns bathroom reader extraordinary book of facts. So when you say out loud ugh, cant find a good book to read, know.
However, while everyone knows the big ones, like football, soccer, tennis, hockey, and swimming, there are many others that are no less exhilarating. Bog snorkeling bog snorkeling began in the uk over a friendly bar chat and evolved into an obscure sport replete with an annual championship. Sport books for children huge discounts at the book people. National geographic kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through awardwinning magazines, books, website, apps, games, toys. Theyll be able to head back to school with a whole mess of fun sports facts 300, to be exact. Pages can include considerable notesin pen or highlighterbut the notes cannot obscure the text. Featuring obscure, unbelievable, intriguing, and engaging facts about some of the worlds most popular and not so popular ball sports, discover well over 250 fascinating nuggets of information on the sports, the balls, the players, the history, and lots more. Here is an alphabetical list of over 100 unusual sports, which we have discovered around the world. They can obscure the issues rather than providing clarification. Some of the sports listed below are quite mainstream sports, but i have included them here as i think they are a little unusual, the people who partake in the sport may be a little unusual, or they are just not.
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And once youve picked your jaw up off the floor, dont miss these 50 random facts that will simply astonish you. The word love used in tennis scoring is derived from the french loeuf meaning egg or zero. If you enjoy these interesting book facts, we have hundreds more in our book, the secret library. Singh broke the records for the 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters and the mile even though he did not develop the ability to walk until he was five years old. Guinness book of world records official representative seyda subasigemici said that philippines got the title for the most number of sky lanterns flown simultaneously with 15,185 lighted lanterns beating romania at 12,740. What makes these interesting sports for me is the facts people actually play them somewhat regularly.
The most obscure sports in the world all thats interesting. With the slowest week of sports upon us and no professional games being played, its been an agonizing few days. More than 100 million people hold hunting licences. Director francis ford coppola found the cat in the studio and handed it to marlon brando before the shot. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days 2. Only one city has won three major sports championships in the same year. Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world. Dont get caught not knowing the true origin story for kleenex, or what a beefalo is. Here is a list of 16 unusual and weird sports facts you might not know. A collection of curious, weird, and totally not boring things to know is a collection of illustrations by mike lowery and handwritten tidbits about the obscure, unusual and simply random. The covers of the first printed books were considered artworks. Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with this new slam dunk. Have you ever ridden a motorcycle while being attacked by a monkey. According to the wall street journals own calculations, the 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action includes balls in play, runner advancement attempts on stolen bases, wild pitches, pitches balls, strikes, fouls and balls hit into play, trotting batters on home runs, walks and hitbypitches, pickoff throws and even one fakepickoff throw.
Detroit in 1935, when the lions won the nfl title, tigers won the world series and red wings took the stanley cup. A booklovers journey through curiosities of history, which is available from michael omara books. The worlds deepest postbox is in susami bay in japan. We provide you some good collection of sports questions. A study was conducted that showed customers in a bookstore were 3. Flush with delightfully useless and sometimes even useful information about sports, movies, music, politics, american and world history, and much more, the book is the most extensive reference guide in the. Interesting facts and sports stories sports trivia volume 1 bill oneill. The last legal spitball and other littleknown facts about. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour. There is no shortage of competitive sports around the world.