Karishma brings you seven things you could really do without, but are better off knowing.
Her warning: You may not like what you find. And you may not believe what is in fact, fact.
But share them with your children. Step into someone else’s shoes. Imagine.
With the Indian Premier League taking over TV screens in India, let’s look at some unique facts about other sports.
The center of some golf balls contain honey.
James Gibb, a British engineer, invented table tennis as a solution to overcome his boredom caused by the ever-changing British weather. Originally, it was played with balls made from champagne corks and paddles made from cigar box lids.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
On landing, a pole vaulter can absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
Olympic badminton rules say the birdie has to have exactly 14 feathers.
Fishing is the biggest participant sport in the world.
The original name for basketball, as given by Dr. James Naismith, was ‘indoor rugby’. His aim was to invent a game that would occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
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