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06/01/2021
🇧🇷 Pele’s last football match was an exhibition game in New Jersey, where he played one half for Brazilian club Santos and the other for New York Cosmos – the two clubs he represented in his senior career.
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30/12/2020
A single Major League Baseball game often uses more than 100 balls, each with an average life expectancy of around two pitches. ⚾️
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23/12/2020
Passing forwards in the offensive zone was illegal in ice hockey until the 1929/30 season - a rule change that saw the number of goals more than double. 🏒
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16/12/2020
On board the Titanic, there was a squash court governed by Frederick Wright - a player and instructor who was born in Great Billing, Northampton.
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10/12/2020
What a way to end 2020. 🙏
Everybody has had to think on their feet this year, so it's great to see the content strategy we put together with South Bend Lions being recognised by Barça Universitas.
A sign of what can be achieved with hard work and creativity. 👊
FC Barcelona Highlights South Bend Lions’ Approach to Fan Engagement in New Learning Course The Barça Innovation Hub’s fan engagement course cites League Two’s Lions as a positive example of a club engaging its fans
09/12/2020
In the year 2000, the sport of mobile phone throwing was invented in Finland. 📱
Competitors are ranked on distance or technique depending on what category they enter.
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09/12/2020
Foil, épée, and sabre are the three types of sword used in fencing, each with slight variations of scoring. 🤺
It is also one of the few sports that has featured in every Olympic Games since 1896.
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26/11/2020
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, made his water polo international debut at 21 years old, representing the Scottish national universities team as a student at the University of St Andrews. 🌊
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18/11/2020
Basketball courts have doubled in size since the sport was first played in the late 19th century. 🏀
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18/11/2020
The fastest ever table tennis shot clocked 72.08mph, which is quicker than the UK's motorway speed limit.
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04/11/2020
As an American football prospect, Dwight D. Eisenhower seriously injured his leg during a college game but went on to become the 34th president of the United States between 1953 and 1961.
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03/11/2020
When Mike Powell set the current long jump world record in 1991, he jumped over 4.5 times his own body length.
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